Sclav; gemeiner; officier
"Slave; Commoner; Officer" (caption translation). From the Upper Guinea Coast at Sierra Leone, this image shows two Africans (one carrying an ivory tusk, the other a bow and arrow) and an onlooking European (Portuguese?). Otto Friedrich von der Groeben (1657–1728) was a Prussian explorer, officer and German Generalleutnant in Polish service. In 1682, Frederick William, von der Groeben commanded a colonial expedition of Brandenburg, which was supposed to acquire a colony on the coast of Guinea. He stopped at various places en route to the Voltaic region where his outfit built Fort Groß Friedrichsburg, near Princess Town.
Image Title
Sclav; gemeiner; officier
RegID
SI-OB-689
Date
1682
Title
Sclav; gemeiner; officier
Source
Otto F. von der Gröben, Guineische Reise-Beschreibung (Marienwerder: Reiniger, 1694), facing 21.
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Rivers
Reproduced In
Anthony Tibbles (ed.), Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity (London: HMSO, 1994), p. 29, fig. 4.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
C007