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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

Related Resources

NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1660 - 1669 (Approximate)
Place: Amstelodami?
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Map P-51
Topics
Africa
Benin
Liberia
Senegal
Ghana
Mali
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)
Togo
Eastern Nigeria (Nigeria)
Gabon
Cameroon
Côte d'Ivoire
Genres
Maps
Notes
Content: Relief shown pictorially. Includes color illustrations and 9 city views.
Content: COLLECTION HISTORY: This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)
Citation/reference: RELATED RESOURCES: NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) ‹http://www.inmotionaame.org› (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)
Content: Scale [ca. 1:40,000,000] (W 35⁰--E 90⁰/N 30⁰--S 30⁰).
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: 1 map : col. ; 27 x 36 cm
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13430177
NYPL Digital Gallery Description: 31486
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 20.01.SCH112
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): fe759f10-0031-0130-8e5c-58d385a7bc34
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