Map of the Southern States, Showing the Relative Proportion of Slaves in the Different Localities
- Title:
- Map of the Southern States, Showing the Relative Proportion of Slaves in the Different Localities
- Alternate Title:
- Map of the Southern States, Showing the Relative Proportion of Slaves in the Different Localities
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Harper's Weekly
- Date:
- 1863
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1067.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1067_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1800 - 1869
- Subject:
- U.S. Civil War
Slavery/Race
Unusual Graphics/Text
Politics & Government - Measurement:
- 24 x 35 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This is a version, published in Harper's Weekly, of the famous "Slave Map" studied and relied on by Lincoln in prosecuting the Civil War. The map shows the population density of slaves at each point in the Confederacy, and while there is no key on the map itself, an accompanying article provides detail on percentages. As the article points out, "the density of slave population presents a proportionate abundance in the product of cotton," as well as "the production of sugar" along the Gulf Coast.
Lincoln's version of the slave map had been produced by Coast Survey. It was substantially larger than the Harper's map and clearly showed county borders, making it suitable for Lincoln to use in following advances on the ground. "Lincoln kept it close at hand and consulted it repeatedly;" he was "frequently engrossed" in it. Schulten 2010, 140, 142. When the portraitist Francis Carpenter borrowed it to incorporate it into his famous First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, the President promptly and personally came to reclaim it, "put on his spectacles, and, taking it up, walked to the window; and sitting down upon a trunk began to pore over it very earnestly," commenting that General Kilpatrick was "close upon" a county "where slaves are thickest." Ibid. 142.
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- Harper's Weekly, February 28, 1863, p.141.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.