Pulled from “Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery”. Figure 1: The proportion of residents who were enslaved in 1860, shown using contemporary county boundaries.
Katherine J. Curtis, a professor of Community and Environmental Sociology, has officially published her research article alongside her co-authors in the Demography journal! The article discusses the concept that, while there are a persistence of relationships between historical racist violence and modern Black-White inequality, the slavery-inequality relationship in the U.S. has changed over time.
Check out the article here! https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/61/3/711/387614/Spatiotemporal-Changes-in-the-Slavery-Inequality?guestAccessKey=4be4623e-77f2-4254-9294-3f5352046fde