Senegal

The slave-trading island of Gorée, Fort Saint-Louis and the growing city of Dakar run through these maps of Senegal, dating ...

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The slave-trading island of Gorée, Fort Saint-Louis and the growing city of Dakar run through these maps of Senegal, dating from 1683 to 1973. Early eighteenth-century charts by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and Jean-François de La Harpe show the river estuary, Fort Saint-Louis, Rufisque and Gorée, a major Atlantic slave-trade post under French control from 1677. Nineteenth-century maps for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge trace journeys across Senegambia towards the Niger basin, while Victor Levasseur and Thomas Bradford map French West Africa. Twentieth-century plans show Dakar, Saint-Louis and the Cap-Vert peninsula expanding, and prints depict natural history and coastal landscapes.

The slave-trading island of Gorée, Fort Saint-Louis and the growing city of Dakar run through these maps of Senegal, dating from 1683 to 1973. Early eighteenth-century charts by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and Jean-François de La Harpe show the river estuary, Fort Saint-Louis, Rufisque and Gorée, a major Atlantic slave-trade post under French control from 1677. Nineteenth-century maps for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge trace journeys across Senegambia towards the Niger basin, while Victor Levasseur and Thomas Bradford map French West Africa. Twentieth-century plans show Dakar, Saint-Louis and the Cap-Vert peninsula expanding, and prints depict natural history and coastal landscapes.

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