English and Dutch Forts, Accra, Gold Coast, 1727
Description
Title, The North Prospect of the English and Dutch Forts at Accra, 1727. The caption describes geographical features of the forts and their location, food provisions available in the area, and notes there are also Negroe towns belonging to each of them (shown in illustration), and the trade of this country . . .is mostly in slaves and gold. Smith made this survey for the Royal African Company.
Source
William Smith, Thirty Different Drafts of Guinea (London, 1727), plate 25.
Creator
Smith, William
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
mariners23
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic--Accra
Item sets
Citation
"English and Dutch Forts, Accra, Gold Coast, 1727", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed November 30, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/561