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Conflict between
Trees of Slavery and Liberty |
Maps; Nineteenth
Century; Slavery/Civil War |
This map, entitled
Historical Geography, portrays American history as a conflict between two opposing trees
struggling to dominate the land. One was the tree of slavery, planted at Jamestown,
Virginia, in 1619; the other, planted by the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620, was the tree of
liberty. The text at the bottom of the map explains the allegory and associates the
Republican Party with the liberty tree. (Historical Geography, by John F. Smith Chicago,
1888 Map) (LoC) |
Courtesy of the
Library of Congress. |
Library of Congress,
Photoduplication Services, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20540 |
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Early image of the
Americas |
Maps; Sixteenth
Century; Cartography; World exploration; Johann Ruysch; Christopher Columbus |
Early image of the
Americas. Sixteenth-century European cartographers anxiously and expeditiously recorded
the expanding world image that resulted from the Age of European Discoveries. One of the
first printed maps to document these expeditions was Johann Ruysch's 1507 world map, which
portrays the lands encountered by Christopher Columbus (including Cuba, Hispaniola, and
the northern coast of South America) as islands off the coast of Asia, while the lands
explored by John Cabot (Newfoundland and Greenland) are depicted as peninsulas attached to
the Asian mainland. |
Courtesy of the
Library of Congress. |
Library of Congress,
Photoduplication Services, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20540 |
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