Two recent articles are worth a look, one on the changing Geography of Black America and another on how mechanization took over Cotton farming. Mona Chalabi maps black populations in the US for the last 118 years, but unfortunately does not go back to the 1850s. However, the distribution in 1900 was probably not that […]

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