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Maps of Africa, Upper Guinea, and the Gold Coast, showing the site of the Ashantee War, 1873. Creator: H. Crane.

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Maps of Africa, Upper Guinea, and the Gold Coast, showing the site of the Ashantee War, 1873. 'The name of Guinea is applied to the whole of that vast angle of the western coast...formed by the general shape of the entire continent...Upper Guinea begins at Sierra Leone and extends to the Gaboon River...It thus comprises the inner part of the great angle formed by the West African coast; this part is the Bight of Biafra, marked by the island of Fernando Po, opposite the Cameroon river and mountains of the mainland. The Upper Guinea Coast, between Sierra Leone and the Cameroons, stretching from west to east, but including the Bight of Benin, must be nearly two thousand miles in length. It is divided...into the Grain Coast, the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, and the Slave Coast, to which might be added the Palm-Oil Coast, these names indicating the chief commodities of merchandise for which those shores were resorted to by early navigators. The Portuguese, succeeded by the Dutch, were the first commercial colonists on the coast of Guinea; their place is now taken mainly by the British, established in several...forts and factories at the most convenient seaports - at Sierra Leone, at the mouth of the Gambia, at Cape Coast Castle, and at Lagos'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

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56,0Mo (3,9Mo) / 44,8cm x 31,3cm / 5293 x 3701 (300dpi)

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Africa ocean sea Mali arts country art trade port ports island continent British geography west africa Guinea gulf Atlantic Ocean war location century Colonial Britain newspapers press print Ivory Coast Ghana concept B&W sierra leone Liberia slavery engraved engraving Burkina Faso gambia sahel Gold Coast 19th century black & white black and white B W bight nineteenth century raw materials The Print Collector colonialism Dahomey geographical feature Illustrated London News imperialism slave trade TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper map Upper Volta Gulf of Guinea Anglo-Ashanti Wars 19th-century Bioko Fernando Po H. Crane Crane H. The Illustrated London News Third Anglo-Ashanti War Bight of Biafra Bight of Bonny Senegambia