Rescuing, Preserving, Documenting and Exhibiting the
Courage of African Americans over the Past Four Centuries.

The Mark E. Mitchell Collection of African American History spans four centuries, consisting of well over
5,000 individual pieces -- defying description both in scope and content. Here is one of the highlights...

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Early Map of Africa -- by Dutch Cartographer Willem Blaeu, c. 1640.
Maps of Africa were vital to European slave traders
who depended upon the mapmaker's representation
of the West African coast for the purposes of navigation.

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