Animated chart of the day: African slaves brought to the New World by region, 1511-1870

Animated chart of the day: African slaves brought to the New World by region, 1511-1870: My latest animated “bar chart race” visualization above was inspired by John Hinderaker’s post on the Power Line blog “Slavery? We Were a Footnote” (quoted below) and shows the cumulative number of African slaves brought to the New World by region between 1511 and 1870. The data are from the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade …