Africans with Ivory Tusks and Weapons, Sierra Leone, 1682


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Source
Published in Anthony Tibbles (ed.), Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity (London: HMSO, 1994), p. 29, fig. 4; the original source is given as Otto F. von der Groben, Guineische Reise-Beschreibung (Leipzig,1694).

Comments
 Two Africans (one carrying an ivory tusk, the other a bow and arrow) and an onlooking European (Portuguese?).