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SCRIPT: Liberia
🕑 Added 2021-02-03 15:47:43 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
This video was posted before the holidays, but I want to share this script, not only because this was a massive project, but also:
1) Because there is a whole entire chapter of this video that we never ended up filming. The ACS, the organization that shipped freed slaves to Liberia, was founded in DC, the building where it was founded is now a bar and grille, so I was going to do some field reporting, which didn't end up happening. Side note: if you are interested, look into who the founding members of the American Colonization Society were. I think you will be surprised.
2) For those of you who are looking to make explainers yourself, I attached at the top the spreadsheet I used to make my graph animation of the leading off shore registries. Click "shipping data" at the top of the script to see how I broke down hundreds of lines of data into a simple graph.
Comments
This was great my father is from Liberia, and his Grandfather my great great grandfather was born a slave in America.. my father just gave me the whole back story of the conflict and the process so I’m deeply interested in this history
I'm looking at the map being used around 5:30. Is this one of those high resolution satellite maps from NASA (If so, which one), or is this a vector recreation of one? (If so, where can I find it, free or not) I've tried using the NASA satellite maps, and even when I convert it into a vector by importing into and exporting from Illustrator, it still gets pixelated when I zoom in as much as was done in the video.
