Slave population, 1860, Southern States and United States. In the map, Abraham Lincoln saw testimony that the American south was not a uniform bloc. Areas of heavy slavery—the darkened banks along the Mississippi River, for example—tended to be secessionist, but the areas in between held the hope of pro-Union sympathy. The President called it his “slave map.” Today we would call it an infographic.Slave population, 1860, Southern States and United States. In the map, Abraham Lincoln saw testimony that the American south was not a uniform bloc. Areas of heavy slavery—the darkened banks along the Mississippi River, for example—tended to be secessionist, but the areas in between held the hope of pro-Union sympathy. The President called it his “slave map.” Today we would call it an infographic.
Slave population, 1860, Southern States and United States. In the map, Abraham Lincoln saw testimony that the American south was not a uniform bloc. Areas of heavy slavery—the darkened banks along the Mississippi River, for example—tended to be secessionist, but the areas in between held the hope of pro-Union sympathy. The President called it his “slave map.” Today we would call it an infographic.