This image depicts a captain and courtier to the Asante king, Adoo Quamina, on horseback. According to Hutton, this nobleman "made frequent visits, and we considered him much more as a spy of the [Asante] government, than a benevolent visitor" (p. 251). William Hutton was a British writer and artist who served briefly in the British foreign service in the Voltaic region. In January 1820, Hutton was part of a British envoy that received Adum, the nephew of the Asantehene (king), at Cape Coast.
Adoo Quamina
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Adoo Quamina
William Hutton, Nouveau voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, ou, Relation de l'ambassade anglaise envoyée en 1820, au royaume d'Ashantée (Paris, 1823), facing p. 201. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
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Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Africa--Voltaic
William Hutton, Nouveau voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, ou, Relation de l'ambassade anglaise envoyée en 1820, au royaume d'Ashantée (Paris, 1823), facing p. 201.
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
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