Cape-Coast Castle, Gold Coast, 1727
Description
Titled, The North-West Prospect of Cape-Coast Castle. The caption notes that Cape Coast is ye largest, strongest, & most beautifull castle belonging to the Royal Afr[ican] Com[pany]. Details are given on the fort and its location, noting that under shelter of ye guns, is built a large populous Negro town. The people are of a warlike sort with comments about the diet and religion of the local population. Smith made his survey for the Royal African Company. See other images mariners on this website.
Source
William Smith, Thirty Different Drafts of Guinea (London, 1727), plate 18.
Creator
Smith, William
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
mariners22
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic--Cape Coast
Item sets
Citation
"Cape-Coast Castle, Gold Coast, 1727", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 18, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/562