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Abd al-Rahman al-Saadi on the Scholars of Timbuktu  

Abd al-Rahman al-Saadi

Date:
ca.
Subject:
Period, Networks, Hierarchies, and Cultural Encounters, 1350 to 1800, Topic, Culture and Identity, Religion, Ideas, and Belief Systems, Cultural Exchange, Region, Sub-Saharan Africa
Born in Timbuktu in 1596, Abd al-Rahman al-Saadi wrote, in Arabic, a chronicle entitled Tarikh al-Sudan (History of the Sudan). The document addresses the political, cultural, and religious ... More

Documents Concerning the Slave Ship Sally, Rhode Island  

Anonymous

Date:
1765
Subject:
Period, Networks, Hierarchies, and Cultural Encounters, 1350 to 1800, Topic, Slavery, Industry and Trade, Cultural Exchange, Region, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Atlantic World
Rhode Islanders were the principal American slave traders during the eighteenth century, during which a total of approximately 1,000 slave-trading voyages set out from the colony to Africa. ... More

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano  

Olaudah Equiano

Date:
1789
Subject:
Period, Networks, Hierarchies, and Cultural Encounters, 1350 to 1800, Topic, Slavery, Cultural Exchange, Region, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Atlantic World
This autobiography of a slave who would emerge as a leading voice in the abolitionist cause has been enormously significant for understanding Atlantic slavery. Equiano claimed to have been ... More

Late 15th Century Ptolemaic Map of the World Henricus Martellus  

Henricus Martellus

Date:
1489
Subject:
Period, Networks, Hierarchies, and Cultural Encounters, 1350 to 1800, Topic, Innovation and Technology, Cultural Exchange, Region, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean
Abstract and Key Words German mapmaker Henricus Martellus created this copy of a Portuguese map to show the extent of Bartolomeu Dias’s explorations beyond ... More

Letter of Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) of Kongo to the King of Portugal  

Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I)

Date:
1526
Subject:
Period, Networks, Hierarchies, and Cultural Encounters, 1350 to 1800, Topic, Slavery, Industry and Trade, States, Empires, and Revolutions, Cultural Exchange, Region, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Atlantic World
A Portuguese sailor came into contact with the Kingdom of Kongo, which occupied a vast territory along the Congo River in central Africa, in 1483. When he returned in 1491, he was ... More

On Mali, from the Rihla  

Ibn Battuta

Date:
c. 1354
Subject:
Period, Networks, Hierarchies, and Cultural Encounters, 1350 to 1800, Topic, Culture and Identity, Religion, Ideas, and Belief Systems, Region, Sub-Saharan Africa
One of the great world travelers of all time, Ibn Battuta was an educated Moroccan who journeyed throughout Africa, the Middle East, Persia, and Asia. In 1354, at age fifty, Ibn Battuta ... More

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