Barbot on Guinea. The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. Edited by P.E.H. Hair, Adam Jones, and Robin Law.Hakluyt Society, Second Series, volumes 175-176.
by BARBOT, Jean
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London, Hakluyt Society, 1992.. 2 volumes. Large 8°, publisher's boards with dust jackets. Minor wear to dust jackets. Otherwise as new. cxxviii, 327 pp.; vii pp., (2 ll.), 331-916 pp., black-and-white illustrations. *** Jean Barbot was a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages in 1678-79 and 1681-82. He began an account of the Guinea coast based on his own observations and on printed sources. The account was expanded for an English edition and continually revised to his death in 1712. This translation includes material from the French and English editions, focusing on Barbot's eyewitness information.***
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- Barbot on Guinea. The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. Edited by P.E.H. Hair, Adam Jones, and Robin Law.Hakluyt Society, Second Series, volumes 175-176.
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- BARBOT, Jean
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- Hardcover
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- London, Hakluyt Society, 1992.
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- Guinea, West Africa, Africa, Travels, Hakluyt Society, Slavery, Slave trade, French author, Huguenot author
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