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[Slave Trade Map]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08363 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Map Date: circa 1852 Pagination: Order a Copy

Depicting infamous African slave port of Lindi at the mouth of the Lindi River, terminus of East African Arab slave route.

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