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You may already be aware of this one:
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php . As can be seen,
there is actually a direct link to some relevant (not sure, for your
purposes) map material:
<http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/return.php?categorynum=1&categoryName=Maps:%20Africa,%20New%20World,%20Slave%20Trade>.
An entire set of internal subject links is supplied:
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html. Additional
keyword searches are also available, such as:
<http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/returnKeyword.php?keyword=sierra+leone>
.
Best of luck with this.
Joel Kovarsky
On 11/22/2010 1:39 PM, John Cloud wrote:
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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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