Negroland
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thumb|300px|A 1729 map titled: "NEGROLAND and GUINEA, with the European settlements. Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & c. By Herman Moll|H. Moll Geographer"
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thumb|300px|A 1729 map titled: "NEGROLAND and GUINEA, with the European settlements. Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & c. By Herman Moll|H. Moll Geographer"
Negroland, Nigrita, or Nigritia, is an archaic term in European mapping, referring to Europeans' descriptions of West Africa as an area populated with negroes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Negroland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.