National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Freedom, Making of African American Identity: V. 1, 1500 1865
Twenty nine primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the qualities and conditions of African lives on the west coast before and during the European slave trade.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally: 1764 65
Providence, Rhode Island's Nicholas Brown and Company owned a slave ship, Sally. Sally is documented for many trips to Africa to pick up slaves. The slaves would be delivered to Caribbean Islands in exchange for sugar and molasses to...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Tropical Forest Foragers
The term "tropical-forest foragers," or "pygmies," refers to ethno-linguistically diverse peoples distributed across the forested regions of Central Africa who are particularly short in stature and who traditionally have lived by...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mamprusi
The people now known as the "Mamprusi" occupy the East and West Mamprusi districts of northern Ghana. Agriculture and animal husbandry provide subsistence for most of the population. Sheep, goats, pigeons, fowl, and guinea foul are kept...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of the Middle East
Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ibibio
The name "Ibibio" identifies the largest subdivision of people living in southeastern Nigeria, in Akwa Ibom State, and it is generally accepted and used for both ethnic and linguistic descriptions. Like their Igbo neighbors, the Ibibio...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Karaites Economy
The majority of Karaites in Cairo worked as artisans -- primarily as gold- and silversmiths or engaged in trade or peddling. Some attained positions as doctors and lawyers or entered the commercial middle class. In Israel, most Karaites...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Okiek
"Okiek" is the name of a Kenyan people who formerly lived by hunting game, making beehives, and gathering and trading honey; it is also the name of their language. The collective name "Okiek" includes over two dozen local groups, each...
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Slave Trade Routes
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Slave Trade Routes."
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: African Slave Trade
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "African Slave Trade."
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1872
A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Africa Before the Berlin Conference, 1882
A map of Africa as it was known in 1882 before the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1858
Map of Africa in 1858, prior to the extensive European colonization of the continent established at the Berlin Conference of 1885. This map shows the European possessions of the Cape Colony, Natal, and Orange River Free State, and the...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Physical and Political Map of Africa, 1879
Map of pre-colonial Africa, showing the predominately native countries and territories of the African continent in 1879. The counties include the Barbary States of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli and Fezzan, the Egyptian territories of...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Africa Before the Berlin Conference, 1884
This is an interesting map of Africa showing the continent before the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1885
A map of the African continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial Africa, 1903
A political map of Africa, as it was in 1903, showing European land claims after the Berlin Conference in 1885. The lack of natural boundaries, that is, boundaries along rivers, mountains, or native lands, shows the European system of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Post Wwi Africa, 1920
A map of Africa in 1920 showing colonial possessions of the British, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belgians, including the former German colonies, lost after WWI, per the Treaty of Versailles. This map shows major cities and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial Africa, 1899
Map of Africa in 1899 showing the colonial possessions of European powers on the continent established at the Berlin Conference of 1885. This map shows major cities and trade centers, railroad routes and canals, major river systems, and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Rainfall in Africa, 1910
A map from 1910 of Africa showing area precipitation and the direction and effects of wind currents on the African continent, including the desert regions in the trade wind and horse latitude belts, and the region of heavy rainfall in...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northwestern Africa, 1906
Map of Northwestern Africa in 1906 showing the Barbary States of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and a portion of Tripoli, the western country of Rio de Oro, and the Upper Guinea States of Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leon, Liberia,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial West Africa, 1920
Map of Western Africa in 1920 showing the Upper Guinea States of Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leon, Liberia, British Gold Coast, Togo, Dahomey, Northern and Southern Nigeria, Kamerun, and Spanish Guinea. The map also shows the...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Africa: European Possessions, 1909
A map of Africa in 1909 showing the European land claims established by the Berlin Conference of 1885. British, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese possessions are shown, as well as major cities and towns, railroad and trade routes,...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Post Wwi Central and Southern Africa, 1920
A map of central and southern Africa in 1920 showing colonial possessions of the British, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belgians, including the former German colonies, lost after WWI, to French and British control per the...
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