Observed arrival · 2026-09-23
Before Contact maps homelands, crossings, and histories
An interactive historical map layers Indigenous nations across North America with transatlantic slave-trade crossings and places where Black and Native histories met.
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- Readers exploring Black and Indigenous history
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- The homepage reports 15 documented crossings from 1564–1860 and nine post-1500 places where Black and Native histories met.
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The page offers regional filters and describes separate map layers for Indigenous nations, Black–Native historical sites, and slave-trade crossings. Its crossings description specifies sail dates, embarkation and docking locations, and what ships carried. The visible nation counter is zero while the map says it is loading, so the extracted page does not establish how much of the map’s data is currently accessible.
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