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
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)