1878 Mitchell Map Africa: Explorers' Routes, Colonies by Freed American Slaves

Description: 1878 Original Antique Mitchell Map Africa, Liberia & Egyptshowing the routes of the great and sometimes forgotten explorersLivingstone, Barth, Petherick , Speke & Burton David Livingstone was the first European to cross the continent from west to east and to discover the Zambesi River, the Victoria Falls and several major central African lakes. His publications about these explorations and the slave trade brought great fame Heinrich Barth with the explorer set out from Tripoli across the Sahara on a British-sponsored expedition to the western Sudan (a term then in use for most of central West Africa). explored the area south and southeast of Lake Chad and mapped the upper reaches of the Benue River. Barth traveled to the city of Timbuktu, now in Mali. He remained there for six months before returning, via Tripoli, to London (1855).John Petherick was a British trader and explorer who investigated the western tributaries of the Nile River and made zoological and ethnological discoveries in the Sudan and central Africa. He was the first European to encounter the Zande of the northeastern Congo River basin. The map shows the farthest south he ever reached. John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) and Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) joined forces to explore the uncharted lakes of central Africa and search for the source of the Nile. The Royal Geographical Society funded their expedition, which began in Zanzibar in June 1857 also showing The Places of Colonization in LiberiaofThe Free People of Color from Americain the African colonies ofMaryland, Mississippi, Louisiana & Pennsylvania also indicating the tribes Louisiana Colony: Emigrants arrived in Monrovia aboard the Brig Strong on August 8, 1822Pennsylvania Colony: In December 1832, the Port Cresson colony was founded in what is now Buchanan, by black Quakers of the New York and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies. Mississippi Colony: When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia. In the 1830s the Mississippi Colonization Society of the United States West Africa. Mississippi-in-Africa was a colony on the Pepper Coast (West Africa) and settled by American free people of color, many of them former slaves. In the late 1840's, some 300 former slaves from Prospect Hill Plantation and other Isaac Ross properties in Jefferson County, Mississippi. The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a small country that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia. The area was first settled in 1834 by freed African-American slaves and freeborn African Americans primarily from the U.S. state of Maryland, under the auspices of the Maryland State Colonization Society.***There is also an insert map ofEgyptshowing to location the Pyramids, the Ruins of Thebesand the French invasions of 1789 The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was a major engagement fought on 21 July 1798, during the French Invasion of Egypt.The Battle of the Nile was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt between 1–3 August 1798.***Historical Trivia: The map shows the place Napoleon was exiled in 1815. *** on reverse are maps of Oceanica including a map of New Zealand.*** This map was taken carefully fromMitchell's New School AtlasPublisherJ. H. Butler & Co.723 Chestnut StreetPhiladelphia1878 Size: 9.2" x 11.5"The maps from this edition are good-very sharp and brightand are basically the same as maps in Mitchell's 1868 edition.

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