The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Thomas Astley, ed., A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. III (London: Printed for T. Astley, 1746)

This early view of the kingdom of Whydah, in present-day Benin, shows the French and English forts as well as the tents on the beach from which the European dealers conducted their respective trades in captives.