NOAA, the agency better known for tracking weather, climate change and marine interests, says it has found a historic map that President Abraham Lincoln used to develop a war strategy against the South. The map, drawn by the U.S. Coast Survey, NOAA’s predecessor agency, in 1861, shows the heaviest concentrations of slavery. • Article
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Saturday, 12 February 2011
Rediscovered map shows slave numbers
NOAA, the agency better known for tracking weather, climate change and marine interests, says it has found a historic map that President Abraham Lincoln used to develop a war strategy against the South. The map, drawn by the U.S. Coast Survey, NOAA’s predecessor agency, in 1861, shows the heaviest concentrations of slavery. • Article






