The Book of Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

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The Book of Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

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Names: Frost, John, 1800-1859 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1846; Place: New York; Publisher: Appleton
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare 916-F
Topics: Africa -- Discovery and exploration
Genres: Illustrations
Notes: Content: Includes accounts of the travels of Bruce, Ledyard, Park, Burckhardt, Denham, Clapperton, Lander, Davidson and Laing.
Physical Description: Engravings; Extent: Xii, 252 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR8072019-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11705318; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): dda95a80-c624-012f-2dba-58d385a7bc34