Talk:Bartholomew Roberts
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In this encyclopedia entry, places which still exist today are given their modern names rather than the name or spelling they were known as in A General History. For example, on page 230 Defoe relates that Roberts was born at Newey-bagh. This place still exists today but is currently known as Casnewydd-Bach [Little Newcastle]. On page 175, the Princess was taken at Anamaboe which was then a well-known slave port on the Gold Coast. That place, now a fishing port, still exists today but is currently known as Anomabu in Ghana. Cape Lopez, mentioned on page 224 et seq., still exists today in Gabon. (Its French name Cap Lopez.) Also note that in Defoe's day, Guiney did not refer to the country currently known as Guinea -- or to any one country -- but rather to the entire coastal region of West Africa running from Senegal at the north to Gabon at the south, which includes present-day Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
