Period

18th Century

Featured Items

Detail of a printed book shows a page with text in French and an illustration on the opposite page.

Code Noir: ou Recueil d’edits, déclarations et arrets concernant les Esclaves Nègres de l’Amérique

1743
Detail of a colored, engraved map shows pink, orange, and yellow used to outline areas and labels in English such as "Penobscots."

Map of the British and French Dominions…,

John Mitchell
1755
Detail of an engraved map shows people standing around a tent that is surrounded by a grid layout.

A View of Savanah as it stood the 29th of March. 1734

Peter Gordon
1734
Detail of a red Morocco binding shows wear near the spine. Partial view of the title on the spine.

Atlas de toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre

Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal
circa 1780
The spine and back cover of Lettre d'une Peruvienne shows deteriorated calf binding.

Lettres d'une Peruvienne

Françoise de Graffigny
1748
Detail of an engraved, hand colored full-page illustration shows a yam.

A collection of exotics, from the Island of Antigua

Lydia Byam
1797
Detail of a printed book shows a decorated title page depicting an illustration of Sor Juana, angels, indigenous people, and text in Spanish and Latin.

Fama, y obras posthumas del Fenix de Mexico

Juana Inés de la Cruz
1700
Two books bound in vellum with manuscript writing on them are pictured on top of each other.

L'Americana Ramminga

Pietro Chiari
1764

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printed list and descriptions of commodities
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group of people standing around a table looking down at several books

Researching the Slave Trade in the JCB Collections

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photograph of Jaime Marroquin, assistant professor of Spanish at western Oregon university
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Jaime Marroquín, Associates Fellow

January 16, 2018
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Elizabeth González Jiménez, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow

November 1, 2017
image from the cover of collecting the world: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British musuem by James delbourgo former fellow at the JCB
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Fresh Ink: Collecting the World by James Delbourgo

October 12, 2017
Jody Benjamin, assistant professor of history at the university of California, riverside and ruth and Lincoln ekstrom fellow at the JCB
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Meet our 1,000th Fellow: Jody Benjamin, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow

August 10, 2017
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Sarah Crabtree, NEH Fellow

April 5, 2017
detailed manuscript plan of the city of Montevideo in present-day Uruguay, including location and names of inhabitants of the town, location of churches, fortifications, dwellings, gardens, and some topographical details
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Montevideo: A City Between Empires

Fabrício Prado September 1, 2008

See Also

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Spanish