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Image Reference
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Source
L'Illustration (Paris), Vol. 14, 1849, p. 137
Comments
Captioned "Slave market in Mascate" (Masqat or Muscat, today the capital of Oman), shows Arab traders and onlookers with captured black Africans. This illustration accompanies a lengthy eyewitness account by Loarer (no first name given) on slavery on the east coast of Africa (pp. 135-138).
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