File:FORBES(1851) p1.133 SCENE AT SLAVE MARKET.jpg

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Date

1851

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British Library HMNTS 10097.d.21.

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Image extracted from page 133 of volume 1 of Dahomey and the Dahomans: being the journals of two missions to the King of Dahomey. In two Volumes., by FORBES, Frederick Edwyn. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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