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Caption: A Signare or woman slave trader of St. Louis, Senegal, 18th century. Signar were mulatto French-African creole women famous for their fashion and culture. A Signara, or Woman of Colour of St. Louis. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves LAfrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls 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.
Credit: Album / Florilegius
Image size: 3587 × 6395 px | 65.6 MB
Print size: 30.4 × 54.1 cm | 1412.2 × 2517.7 in (300 dpi)