The West Indian Atlas or a General Description of the West Indies
Description
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.
Source
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.
Date Created
1780
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
G010
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean
Item sets
Citation
"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 February 21, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2648
