Chief of a nomadic Moorish tribe, Senegambia, 18th century

Chief of a nomadic Moorish tribe, Senegambia, 18th century. The Assounas enslaved people from south of the Senegal River. The horse is tethered by ropes to four stakes in the ground. A Chief of the Assounas. 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

Description Enslaved Frederic Geoffroy Manners Moorish Moors Nomadic Sahara Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Villeneuve

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