Name: Poster Era 3: Transatlantic Crossing & Early Colonial Knowledge (1500 – 1790)
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Poster Era 3: Transatlantic Crossing & Early Colonial Knowledge (1500 – 1790)

Skills, stories, and ideas can survive even the greatest hardships.

Knowledge Crosses Boundaries explores the preservation and movement of African knowledge across generations and oceans, honoring the resilience of people whose experiences helped shape new communities.

Discovery Question: How do people preserve knowledge through change?

SKU: COD-POSTER-ERA3 Category: Posters

Era 3: Transatlantic Crossing & Early Colonial Knowledge Poster
Knowledge Crosses Boundaries
1500 – 1790

Knowledge is more than information. It lives in the skills we practice, the stories we remember, and the traditions we pass to future generations.

During the era of transatlantic crossings and early colonial expansion, African people experienced profound upheaval, including forced displacement and enslavement. Yet knowledge of agriculture, craftsmanship, food preparation, healing, and other practices continued to be preserved, adapted, and shared.

This poster invites Explorers to recognize the importance of cultural memory, human resilience, and the contributions of African knowledge to communities across the Atlantic.

Your Discovery Challenge: How do people preserve knowledge through change?

A meaningful educational artwork for classrooms, libraries, history programs, cultural institutions, and home collections.

Part of the Community On Demand™ Innovations Scavenger Hunt — Eight Eras of Black Innovation Poster Collection created by Dana Jewel Harris. Community On Demand and The Innovations Scavenger Hunt is the Creative & Intellectual Property of NEXT Steps Small Business Incubator. All rights reserved. Copyright 2026.