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MAPS RELEVANT TO "AMA" and "BRAVE MUSIC of a DISTANT DRUM"

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Map of Gold Coast Colony and Adjacent Territories, 1896
From the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and edited by James Geikie and W.A. Taylor. Volume XII, 1896. 1896 was the year in which a British expeditionary force invaded Asante (with which it was not at war) and enforced a 'regime change' by abducting the Asantehene Prempeh I and transporting him successively to Elmina, Freetown and the Seychelles. He was not permitted to return to Kumase until 1924. Features and place names which appear in Ama are shown ringed.

Political map of Ghana, 1996

Features and place names which appear in Ama are shown ringed. The site of the original town on Kafaba has been submerged by the Volta Lake. Elmina is not shown but that town has certainly not been submerged.

Relief map of Ghana, 1996

Features and place names which appear in Ama are shown ringed. The site of the original town on Kafaba has been submerged by the Volta Lake. Elmina is not shown but that town has certainly not been submerged.

Africa Diaspora Map based on research by Joseph E. Harris
The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume and Destination, 1701-1819 (after P D Curtin)

Bahia (All Saints' Bay)

Salvador is shown (1). Ama's fictional engenho might have been in the vicinity of Santa Amaro (2).

 

atlanticocean.jpg (37289 bytes)

The Atlantic Ocean

 

 

 

Atlantic currents.gif (30978 bytes) The Atlantic: Ocean Currents

The Love of Liberty's Middle Passage

Showing prevailing winds
map from:
Van Dantzig, A, Het Nederlandse Aandeel in de Slawenhandel Fibula 1968 (in Dutch)

credit:Koninklijke Biblioteek, Den Haag

 

gold coast.jpg (268453 bytes) Gold and Slave Coasts, showing slave castles and forts (Sorry, I've mislaid the source.)
atlantic.jpg (557232 bytes) Competition for trade in the Atlantic, XVIIth to XVIIIth centuries. (Sorry, I've mislaid the source.)
map.jpg (369439 bytes) A Map of the Gold Coast from Ifsini to Alampi by M.D'ANVILLE, April, 1729



LINKS

 

Maps of Africa http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/P314/africamaps.html

 

Africa Data DisseminationService "this site lets you view or download topographic maps, referencemaps..., or data by country, region, or the entire... continent. "

http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/index.php

 

Maps-Ghana Historical Maps - Ghana, West Africa, Africa(C. Ladzekpo, University of California, Berkeley) http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/maps.html

Shaded Relief, 1996. (316K)
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/ghana_rel96.jpg

Seven maps of Ghana: political and shaded relief. From 1upTravel.com.
www.1uptravel.com/worldmaps/ghana.html

Topographical Map of Ghana
Regions, rivers and cities.
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/CIA_Maps/Ghana_1

 

West African Slave Trade Map
Map depicts the movement of Atlantic slave trade, indicating volume anddestinations from 1701 to 1810.
http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w111/slaves.htm

 

Map of Gold Coast Colony andAdjacent Territories, 1896 (315K)
From the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Royal ScottishGeographical Society and edited by James Geikie and W.A. Taylor. Volume XII,1896.
Shows Yendi, Daka River, Kpembe (lookfor Salaga), Kaffaba, Volta River, Kumasi, Elmina, etc.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/gold_coast_1896.jpg

 

TheAfrican Diaspora Maps I and II by Prof. Joseph E. Harris

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/hg/ae-map.html