Mission Power
This visualization shows the relative scale of the transatlantic slave trade by country from 1501 to 1653, stacking separate area charts for each nation to compare activity over time. It uses D3.js version 3.5.5 to load tab-separated data from slavevoyages.org, map years to an x-scale, and draw smoothed areas with `d3.svg.area().interpolate("basis")`. Each country receives a distinct color, and vertical gridlines mark every 20 years, while the y-axis height encodes the annual number of enslaved people embarked.
AI-generated descriptionSlave Voyages - Embarking
This is an attempt at visualizing the relative scale of the slave trade by country. The data comes from slavevoyages.org.
The visualization is inpsired by the Mountains-out-of-molehills visualization. The focus is to communicate the relative scale over time, giving us a sense of activity over time of this attrocious part of our history.
forked from <a href='http://bl.ocks.org/enjalot/'>enjalot</a>'s block: <a href='http://bl.ocks.org/enjalot/754c7d061c2d0b71be37'>slave voyages - embarking</a>