Long before anyone argued about identity online, European mapmakers were quietly drawing the answer. For hundreds of years their published maps labeled the heart of West Africa 'Negroland,' and on the very coast where the slave ships loaded, they printed the words 'Kingdom of Juda.' A kingdom of Judah, in a land called Negroland, on the Slave Coast, at the exact point of the great deportation. This study lets the old maps speak for themselves.
Long before anyone argued about identity online, European mapmakers were quietly drawing the answer. For hundreds of years their published maps labeled the heart of West Africa 'Negroland,' and on the very coast where the slave ships loaded, they printed the words 'Kingdom of Juda.' A kingdom of Judah, in a land called Negroland, on the Slave Coast, at the exact point of the great deportation. This study lets the old maps speak for themselves.