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West Africa. 'Chart prepared with a view to show the present state of the slave trade...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/503
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- FO 925/503
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1840-1849
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Description (What the record is about)
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West Africa. 'Chart prepared with a view to show the present state of the slave trade on the Coast of Africa'. Shows west African coastline from River Gambia to Little Fish Bay and gives details of slave trading, slave ships captured, treaties entered into with native chiefs and Liberia and Portuguese possessions. Manuscript additions and notes dated Foreign Office, 23 April 1849. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to about 50 miles. Inset: coast near Benguela Bay, 1840. Map lithographed from FO 925/661 (Africa entry 268).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 107 cm x 129 cm
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- Lithographed, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 265
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3817094/
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FO 925
Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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