Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1880s


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Image Reference
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Source
Hermann von Wissman, My Second Journey through Equatorial Africa from the Congo to the Zambesi in the years 1886 and 1887. Translated from the German (London, 1891), facing p. 244.

Comments
 Arab slavers leading coffle during rainstorm; people joined by forked logs and chains.