Mapped: From the Emancipation Proclamation to Juneteenth
Art direction, reporting and design: Lindsey Bailey
Pitch
For the Juneteenth holiday, the local editorial team organized a local-wide newsletter for all of our cities. I pitched a map illustrating the spread of emancipation across the South before, during and after the Civil War. In this case, emancipation meant the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation through Union victories, recruitment of contraband Black men and women, and direct intervention by soldiers.
Sources
Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, The American Nation Harper & Brothers, 1904
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