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Image Reference
illustration137a
Source
L'Illustration (Paris), Vol. 14, 1849, p. 137
Comments
Shows four men and one woman (with baby on her back), representing several types of "tribus de negres" (Negro tribes) involved in the slave trade, identified (from left to right), as Macoua, Inhamban, Maravi/Moravi, Muyao; the adults are shown with facial scarifications or so-called tribal marks. This illustration accompanies a lengthy eyewitness account by Loarer (no first name given) on slavery on the east coast of Africa (pp. 135-138). The author describes in ethnocentric terms, the characteristics of each of these groups (pp. 135-136).
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