Inhambane was among
the principal slave ports located on the coast of Mozambique, South-East Africa.
Mozambique became an important region of slave embarkation in the nineteenth century after
the prohibition of the slave trade in the North Atlantic in 1815. The image is of a map of
Inhambane. The map locates the port of Inhambane right on the mouth of a river that has
the same name as the port. It also provides the names of the main features of the coast
surrounding Inhambane as well as the depth of the port’s sea. The map was published by
Commander Francisco Maria Bordalo, responsible for completing a report on the Portuguese
possessions overseas begun by Commander José Joaquim Lopes de Lima. The image is
reproduced courtesy of the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, Emory University.