Bridge to Empathy and Inquiry

I'm excited to launch our inquiry with this map on Monday.

This map from National Geographic will be a great: 
1. Inquiry Launch- We talked about the Middle Passage. Now what questions does this map inspire?
2. Inquiry Bridge- Because we are already staggered by the numbers- MILLIONS-of enslaved Africans, this data helps us to understand how slave resistance grew and trace the brutality of slave codes in response.
3. Empathy Launch - While we stagger beneath the weight of slavery's brutality, we stay mindful of individual stories.  The story of African American resilience, however, is a community story and this map helps us begin to wrap our mind around where those communities were and how they formed.
4. Empathy Bridge - We are working on understanding that slavery was not a southern issue or a southern problem, but something that all parts of American society relied on and benefited from in some way. This map helps us visualize that geographic connection.

Here's the original source: ​https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/08/how-slavery-flourished-united-states-chart-maps/