A cavalry man, Senegambia, 18th century

A cavalry man, Senegambia, 18th century. Mounted on a horse without a saddle, armed with lance, bow and quiver of arrows. Cavalier negre. A negro horse soldier. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's l'Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821

Barracks Cote Description Enslaved Frederic Geoffroy Goree Manners Moors Prise Sahara Senegal Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Villeneuve

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