Slave gang passing along the edge of the Lushivi marsh /
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
[William Little],
1876.
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| Item Description: | Detached from: Supplement to the illustrated London news, April 15, 1876, page 377. Illustration from an account (on page 366) of Cameron's voyage to Africa. Cameron, lauded by the journal as "one of the most successful of African geographical explorers" had recently returned to England, having left in November 1872 under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society. He traveled through Central and East Africa in the early 1870s, and witnessed this slave coffle in central Africa around 1874: "The painful march of a slave gang, two or three score wretched women all tied together by knotted ropes, all heavily laden and driven on by the whip .... The slaves were kidnapped by a ruffian named Coimbra, a half-caste Portuguese from Bihe" (page. 366). Above the engraving is an oval portrait of "Lieutenant V.H. Cameron, R.N." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 print : black and white ; on sheet 40 x 27 cm |