Period

17th Century

Featured Items

Detail of a printed map shows decorative elements such a sun, a person carrying arrows, ships and fish at sea, a scale, and a key with text in French at the bottom of the map.

Carte geographique de la Nouvelle France

Samuel de Champlain
1612

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Europeans and Africans at the shore

Voyage to the Islands: Hans Sloane, Slavery, and Scientific Travel in the Caribbean

Spring - Summer 2012
map showing water, volcanoes, the sun, mountaintops, waterways and towns

Bodies of Water/Bodies at Work

Summer - Fall 2018
Black people work at a sugar mill with clouds and a palm tree outside

The Americas on Fire

printed title page of a religious text in Algonquian and English
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A healthy conversion: John Eliot, Robert Boyle, and the Algonquians

January 1, 2019
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Fresh Ink: Memory Lands by Christine M. DeLucia

November 16, 2018
image of urban slavery in colonial Mexico: Puebla de Los Angeles, 1531-1706 book cover, authored by Pablo m. Sierra silva
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Fresh Ink: Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico by Pablo M. Sierra Silva

April 12, 2018
cover of "A Biography of a Map in Motion" by Christian J Koot
Our Fellows

Fresh Ink: A Biography of a Map in Motion by Christian J. Koot

March 8, 2018
detail from a page in Charles de Rochefort’s Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l’Amerique 1681

A View of Slave Cabins on the Margins

March 8, 2018

See Also

Cosmography and Astrology

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