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Map of West Indies and Caribbean, created by Herman Moll, 1732, courtesy of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps. Map reveals relatively close proximity of Carolina colony and British West Indies. Early settlement in Carolina was strongly influenced by trade with Barbadians and other West Indian settlers, as well as emigration from the West Indies of both planters and slaves to this new North American colony.

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Map of West African kingdoms and regions, including Bondu, from David Boilat's Esquiesses Sénégalaises (Senegalese Sketches), 1852, courtesy of Gallica Digital Library.

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Map of West African coast showing "A mina" (the mine), which later became Elmina in present day Ghana, ca. sixteenth century.

Map of West Africa, created by Johann Baptist Homann, 1743.

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Map of West Africa, created by Homann Heirs, 1743, courtesy of Geographicus Fine Antique Maps.

Map of volume and direction of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1514-1867, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, courtesy of David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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Map of volume and direction of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from all African to all American regions

Map of Triangular trade between western Europe, Africa and Americas, 2007.

Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina, ca. 1721-1725, courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Map of the Sea Islands along the South Carolina and Georgia coast, "The Sea Island Hurricane: The Devastation, 1894," from Scribner Magazine, sketch by Daniel Smith, Sea Islands, South Carolina, 1894, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Map of the Cotton Factory, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1888, courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

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