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 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.
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 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.