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Exploring Africa An Exhibit of Maps and Travel Narratives originally displayed February-April 1997 Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina based on an exhibit by Patrick Scott hypertext by Jason A. Pierce Wilhelm Blaeu's 1617 map of Africa This exhibit puts on display one of the hidden resources of Thomas Cooper Library's Special Collections, a selection from the many books of travel and exploration purchased for the original South Carolina College Libra ...

studyworld Famous Explorers of Africa Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who led one of the first expeditions to investigate the course of the Niger river in Western Africa. Mungo Park was a 23 year-old scottish surgeon surgeon who had just returned from a journey to Sumatra on a ship of the East India Company. There he had discovered 6 species of fish, he had published descriptions in a Scientific Journal. In 1795, Park had gone to Piscina, on an offer to research further into Africa. Par ...

By 1800 the voices raised in opposition to the international slave trade were becoming more common. These voices originated from Africa itself, as well as Europe and America. In 1526 the king of the Bakongo (in the Congo region) demanded of Portugal: "It is our will that in these kingdoms there should not be any trade in slaves, nor market for slaves." As early as 1571 France had banned the importation of slaves. Organized opposition to slavery came more slowly to England, which refuse ...

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