Plan of James Island and Fort, Gambia, 1727
Description
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.
Source
William Smith, Thirty Different Drafts of Guinea (London, 1727), plate 5.
Creator
Smith, William
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
mariners16
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Western Savanna--James Island
Item sets
Citation
"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