Queens' College and the 'Province of Freedom'

This map details the outposts and forts, known as ‘slave castles’, that belonged to colonial powers along the West Coast of Africa in the mid-eighteenth century. Through these gateways, enslaved Africans would be exchanged for consumer goods, and trafficked across the Atlantic on the triangular trade route.

Title: A new and correct Map of the Coast of Africa (1753?)
Shelfmark: QC 979

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