Included in Chapter IX, "Mandings, Barra, Kollar, et Badibou," the engraving shows a Mandingo regent in the costume of his people. The Mandingos are a West African ethnic group; they live in the countries of Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Senegal., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 3 p. 170., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date
[1814]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 3 p 170, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2930
Included in Chapter IV, "Cayor" the engraving shows pirogues, or the boats of the Africans., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 3 p. 60., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date
[1814]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 3 p 170, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2929
Various aspects of the scene correspond with observations raised in Myer's text. For instance, in the lower left-hand corner of the image, a man kills a crocodile in a way that Myers described as typical in West Africa: by wrapping his arm in a piece of strong dried skin and plunging it as far as possible into the crocodile's mouth. With the aid of a flexible wooden hoop, another figure climbs a tree in order to procure sap for palm-wine, a popular beverage. In the center of the scene, several slaves march in single file over a bridge. Led by two European colonizers, they are bound together by collars connected to a pole that rests on their shoulders., Plate in Thomas Myer's New and Comprehensive System of Modern Geography, Mathematical, Physical, Political, and Commercial (London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822), p. 436., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Punishment Scenes.
Creator
Storer, engraver
Date
July 1, 1820
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1822 Myer 1820.Q p 436, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2725
Engraving is set in the village of Ben in the Kingdom of Cayor (Senegal). Armed with swords, long spears, and other weapons, African slave-traders capture a mother and her three small children. In the background, two traders attack another village resident. The image includes villagers' cottages, and the central scene is framed by elements of the lush, hilly landscape., Double-page illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 3, p. 56., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Date
[1814]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 3 p 56, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2928
Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African goldsmith (or blacksmith) working with his hammer and anvil., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 178., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date
[1814]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 178, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2932
Riding on horseback and armed with swords, Moorish slave-catchers raid a village in search of slaves. As the village burns in the background, a slave-catcher pursues a fleeing man., Plate 31 in Jean Baptiste Léonard Durand's Atlas pour servir au Voyage du Sénégal (Paris: Dentu, 1807)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Creator
Demonchy, engraver
Date
[1807]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Afri Dur 13032.Q plate 31, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2903
