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.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1710
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)