Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Three graphs.

The first graph shows steady population growth in Africa from the 1500's to the 1800's; it grew from a "small" 35 million all the way to 60 million. This means that every 100 years or so, the population grew steadily at 7 million.

The second graph is describing the increase in the number of slave exports from the 1600's to the 1800's. the thing i found surprising about this was that the way the graph was made, almost made it seem that there was a huge gap in the population from slave exports, when really the total population growth made that seem like not so much.

And in the final graph, a pie chart, we see different destinations for the slave exports. Most of the slaves were sent to the caribbean, where the importance of sugar was. I found it interesting how so many slaves were sent to one place, even considering the fact that sugar was immensely important, there still isnt much land for all those slaves. But then again, the owners of the plantations had no concern for that,

These graphs did not really add any information to what I knew already; but it definitely helped me grasp the information better.


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