This title page to the Atlas depicts scenes of an unidentified Caribbean island with ships in the bay. In the foreground, enslaved people were illustrated transporting sugar hogsheads.

Thomas Jefferys, The West Indian Atlas, or a General Description of the West Indies (London, 1780), title page. Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

English

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Caribbean

"The West Indian Atlas or a General Description of the West Indies", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 19, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2648