Caption, Maures pillant un village Negre (Moors plundering/pillaging a Negro village), depicts slave raid on an African village; man on horseback with sword, woman holding child, cowering; houses burning in background. Villeneuve lived in the Senegal region for about two years in the mid-to-late 1780s. The engravings in his book, he writes, were made from drawings that were mostly done on the spot during his African residence (vol. 1, pp. v-vi). The same illustration appears in color in the English translation of Villeneuve; see Frederic Shoberl (ed.), Africa; containing a description of the manners and customs, with some historical particulars of the Moors of the Zahara . . . (London, 1821), vol. 1, facing p. 140.

Renè Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sènègal (Paris, 1814), vol. 2, facing p. 120. (Copy in Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)

de Villeneuve, Renè Claude Geoffroy

French

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Africa--Western Savanna

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