"Promotion of Otho to the Dignity of General of the United Nations Army" (caption translation). This engraving depicts a solemn ceremony involving about 500 African soldiers encircling an open space wherein are seated Danish traders and political elders, including the paramount chief of Akra. In the background is the Fort Kongensten and the village of Ada Foah in the Voltaic region. Isert described the image as his "poor attempt at representation by my inadequate brush." Paul Erdmann Isert (1756–1789) was a German botanist and chief surgeon to Christiansborg at Osu, Accra in Danish Guinea in 1783. He collected plant specimens, and realizing that local inhabitants had no written language, he recorded an ethnographic and botanical record of the Danish Gold Coast.

Paul Erdmann Isert, Voyages en Guinee et dans les isles Caraibes en Amerique. . . Traduits de l'Allemand (Paris: Chez Maradan, 1793).

Isert, Paul Erdmann

French

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Africa--Voltaic--Ada Foah

"Promotion d'Otho a la dignité de général de l'armée des nations unies", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed July 30, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2227