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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, General Research and Reference Division
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| Map of Africa, ca. 1600 |
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Europeans named some parts of the West African coast according to the "goods" - including people - they could find there. In modern terms, this classification corresponds to the following countries:
| Senegambia |
Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea Bissau (captives deported through this area also came from landlocked Mali) |
| Sierra Leone |
Sierra Leone and Guinea |
| Windward Coast |
Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire |
| Gold Coast |
Ghana |
| Slave Coast or Bight of Benin |
Togo, Benin, and southwest Nigeria |
| Bight of Biafra |
Eastern Nigeria and Cameroon to Gabon |
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| Image ID: | 112491 |
Title: | Africæ: nova descriptio. |
Name: | Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638) - Cartographer |
Created: | ca. 1600 |
Location: | General Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
Subjects: | Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 |
| Benin |
| Bissau (Guinea-Bissau) |
| Cameroon |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
| Eastern Nigeria (Nigeria) |
| Gabon |
| Gambia |
| Ghana |
| Guinea |
| Liberia |
| Mali |
| Senegal |
| Sierra Leone |
| Togo |
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