T Fort, Creuecoeur
This engraving shows a seaside view of the Dutch slave trading fort, Crèvecœur, which was built in 1649. It is a day's walk from Elmina. The engraving shows the fort from the sea with an African town on the right. The original drawing is from the 1679 manuscript. Jean Barbot (1655-1712) was a French explorer and merchant. Employed by the Compagnie du Senegal, Barbot documented two voyages along the coast of West Africa, then across the Atlantic to the Caribbean in 1678-1679 and 1681-1682.
Image Title
T Fort, Creuecoeur
RegID
SI-OB-899
Date
1679
Title
T Fort, Creuecoeur
Source
Jean Barbot, "Journal du Voyage de Guinée, Cayenne, et Illes Antilles de L'Amerique. . ." British Library, MS 28788, 22 Oct. 1678 - 24 Sep. 1679.
Language
English
Item sets
European Forts & Trading Posts in Africa
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic--Accra
Reproduced In
P. E. H. Hair, Adam Jones and Robin Law, Barbot on Guinea (1678-1712), vol. 2 (London: Hakluyt Society,1992), fig. 40.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
2007; 29-Aug-19
Identifier
Barbot002