{"id":103054,"date":"2015-02-17T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=103054"},"modified":"2015-02-17T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:29:35","slug":"lincolns-map-at-president-lincoln-cottage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/lincolns-map-at-president-lincoln-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Abe’s birthday! Lincoln’s slave density map is home again in President Lincoln Cottage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cslave density map<\/a>,\u201d created by the men of U.S. Coast Survey in 1861, is one of Coast Survey\u2019s most treasured historical maps. Artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter included it in his painting, \u201cFirst Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln,\u201d because Lincoln consulted it so often in devising his military strategy. According to Carpenter, President Lincoln used the map in his decisions to send his armies to free blacks in some of the highest density areas in order to destabilize Southern order.
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Francis Bicknell Carpenter placed the “slave density map” in the lower right corner of his painting of the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nPresident Lincoln\u2019s Cottage<\/a>, now maintained by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is where President Lincoln developed the Emancipation Proclamation. So it was fitting that, on Lincoln\u2019s birthday this year, NOAA\u2019s Office of Coast Survey presented a copy of the map to Cottage officials, to assist with their vital educational programs.
\nIn the very library where Lincoln may have studied the map, Coast Survey\u2019s Dawn Forsythe (left) and NOAA\u2019s Ben Sherman (right) presented the map to Erin Carlson Mast, the Cottage\u2019s executive director, and Callie Hawkins, associate director for programs.
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Dawn Forsythe (Coast Survey), Erin Carlson Mast and Callie Hawkins (Lincoln’s Cottage), and Ben Sherman (NOAA) with the slave density map in the Lincoln Cottage library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe Cottage plans to use the map in their educational programs<\/a>. To learn more about the map, see Mapping Slavery in the Nineteenth Century<\/a>.
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The men of Coast Survey created the map<\/a> to help the public understand the secession crisis, by providing a visual link between secession and slavery.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cslave density map,\u201d created by the men of U.S. Coast Survey in 1861, is one of Coast Survey\u2019s most treasured historical maps. Artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter included it in his painting, \u201cFirst Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln,\u201d because Lincoln consulted it so often in devising his military strategy. According to Carpenter, … <\/p>\n

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