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Map showing the distribution of the enslaved population of the southern states of the United States, compiled from the Census of 1860, E. Hergesheimer (cartographer), Th. Leonhardt (engraver), 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Map showing the distribution of the enslaved population of the southern states of the United States, compiled from the Census of 1860, E. Hergesheimer (cartographer), Th. Leonhardt (engraver), 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Though only around 470,000 enslaved Africans were sent to North American through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, by 1860, over four million African Americans lived in bondage in the United States.

Map showing the concentration of enslaved people in the South, 1860.

Map overview of the Yamassee War, 2007.

Map of Windsor, Vermont, January 3. 1887, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Map of Western Europe, 1700, courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.

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.

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