Dutch West Africa Company


This image was taken from a decoration of a Seventeenth Century Dutch map of West Africa - often referred to as the Slave or Gold Coast. It clearly shows Europeans arranging the purchase of slaves from African and Arab slave traders before shipping them off to South America and the Caribbean.


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