Smith made this drawing for the Royal African Company which claimed the fort. Note the location of the New Barracks (center right) and another slave house (upper center). For another architectural drawing of this fort, based on a survey close to 30 years later, see image PRO-1.

William Smith, Thirty Different Drafts of Guinea (London, 1727), plate 5.

Smith, William

English

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Africa--Western Savanna--James Island

"Plan of James Island and Fort, Gambia, 1727", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 23, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/570