Caption, Femmes de la cote des Esclaves (Women of the Slave Coast). Numbers on top: 1) Femmes de qualité;2) Femmes du Commun; 3) Esclave.
Female Clothing Styles, West Africa, 18th cent.
SI-OB-593
Female Clothing Styles, West Africa, 18th cent.
M. De La Harpe, Abrége de l'histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1780), vol. 3, facing p. 269. (Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia)
French
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Africa--Western Bight
M. De La Harpe, Abrége de l'histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1780), vol. 3, facing p. 269.
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
LCP-40