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Map-histoers:
Anthropologist and historian Joe Opala, whom I've known since we were
in high school in Oklahoma, is heading a project in Sierra Leone, in
west Africa,to preserve the slave fort on Bunce Island, the place of
departure for about 30,000 humans who were enslaved and sent to Brazil,
the West Indies and the United States. The project is described in a
recent article from Rhode Island, which was hugely involved in the slave
trade in Sierra Leone.
http://www.projo.com/news/content/BUNCE_ISLAND_PROJECT_11-08-10_TAKL6AP_v39.328b0ac.html
In Sierra Leone they retain few artifacts of the slave trade, so Joe
Opala and company are appealing for digital surrogates of historic
materials that can help evoke the several centuries of trans-Atlantic
slave trade, its roots, and its very bitter fruits.
On his behalf I'm appealing for leads to the historic cartography of
the slave trade related to Sierra Leone. These might include graphic
depictions of the "triangle trade" itself, but more likely would be
digital images of the actual maps and charts used by slave ship masters
to get to and from Sierra Leone, and to the various ports where slaves
were delivered and sold in the New World. The Bunce Island fort was
established about 1670, and, although destroyed and rebuilt various
times, it was in operation almost continuously under four British
companies until the early 1800s.
I will collate any information supplied, or you can contact Joe Opala
directly, at: [email protected]
In early December, he'll return to the US for several months of
research and fund raising. Any materials he can take back to Sierra
Leone would be most welcome.
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