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Map of African American populations in the thirteen English colonies that later became the United States, seventeenth through eighteenth centuries (modern state boundaries shown), by Michael Siegel, 2005, courtesy of Routledge Cartography.

Map of Americas and the West Indies, created by Samuel Agustus Mitchell, 1866, courtesy of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps.

Map of Americas by Covens and Mortier, 1739

Map of Americas where Spanish settled and often attempted to enslave American Indians, engraving by Theodor de Bry, ca. 1594, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Map of Barbados, by Richard Ligon, ca. 1647-50, courtesy of the Latin American Library, Tulane University. Ligon, who lived in Barbados between 1647 and 1650, wrote about the enslaved society that contributed a significant number of the first permanent African descended settlers in Carolina. Large sugar estates identified on Ligon's map occupied the best land on the island, displacing many small farmers. By the mid seventeenth century, an enslaved black majority grouped together on large plantations was a constant source of anxiety to the declining white population. Ligon may have been thinking of a failed slave revolt that took place in Barbados in the 1640s when he included the drawing of runaways being pursued by the militia on the map. The militia were responsible for controlling the slave population and defending white English rule on the island.

In this beautifully detailed map Richard Ligon, who lived in Barbados between 1647 and 1650, described the enslaved society that contributed a significant number of the first permanent African descended settlers of South Carolina. Large sugar estates…

Map of Charles Town, South Carolina, 1764, courtesy of the University of Alabama Department of Geography.

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Map of Charleston Harbor, image by Edmund M. Blunt, 1822, courtesy of the University of Alabama Department of Geography.

Map of Charleston peninsula, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1888, courtesy of Library of Congress.

Map of Charleston showing 166 Smith Street, Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, Charleston, South Carolina, 1888, courtesy of University of South Carolina, South Carolinian Library.

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Map of Charleston showing Guignard Street, Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, Charleston, South Carolina, 1884, courtesy of University of South Carolina, South Carolinian Library.

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