Akan Drum
early 18th century · Resource
A wooden Akan drum made in West Africa and carried to colonial Virginia via the transatlantic slave trade, the oldest African-American object in the British Museum. It links West African culture to African-American music.
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Around 1710
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Palace of Versailles built (1661)
- George Washington (1732)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1725)
- Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral (1675)
- Seven Years' War (1756)