Caption:
Slave raid on the town of Joal, Kingdom of Sine, Wolof Empire, Senegal, 18th century. Every weekend the Bour-Sine, or King of Sine, sent out troops to sell his own Serer people to French slave traders. View of Guioala or Joal. 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.