Documenting the Black past has always been central to the Black experience. Abundant source hav always exsited for docuemtning the Blac past. These sources contniue to expand with new finds, digitization and more scholarly attention to many aspects of the Black past. Below please find some sources for Mapping the Black Experience.
Transatlantic Slave Trade https://www.slavevoyages.org/blog/all-intro-maps
Slavery in the US https://lincolnmullen.com/projects/slavery/
The Underground Rail Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqRsbN_klGo
The Civil War https://www.battlefields.org/learn/maps/civil-war-animated-map
Black History of New York https://maap.columbia.edu/
HBCUs https://hbcufirst.com/resources/hbcu-list-map
The Green Book https://libguides.northwestern.edu/c.php?g=114845&p=750322
Lynching https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/explore
The Blues https://msbluestrail.org/
Great migrations https://depts.washington.edu/moving1/black_migration.shtml
Black Towns https://carolinacartography.org/projects/black-town-map/
Sun Down Towns https://www.reddit.com/r/USCensus2020/comments/1558qgn/here_is_an_interactive_map_of_current_and/
The Freedom Movement https://depts.washington.edu/moves/index.shtml
State Legislatures https://www.governing.com/now/blacks-in-state-legislatures-a-state-by-state-map.html
Black population https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/charts/22
Black Digital Humanities Projects https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/mappingbdph/
Black Speech https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/mdu1ju/a_look_at_regional_variation_in_african_american/
Food Culture https://www.mofad.org/about-aa