Author: JOHNSTON, H.H.
Title: The History of a Slave.
Description: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1889. 1st edition. "The 'History of a Slave' is an attempt to give a realstic sketch of life in the Western Sudan. It is the outcome of some considerable experience of the Dark Continent, but is especially based on what I have seen and heard when travelling in North Africa, in the Niger Delta, and on the Cross River, I have pieced together the accounts given me by negro slaves in the Barbary States and in Western Equatorial Africa, espeially by Mbudikum people, with whom I have conversed at Old Calabar..The places and peoples I have named are of real existence, as are also the languages quoted, though some of them as in the case of the Mbudikum tongue, probably appear in print for the first time." (author's preface). 20.5cms x 16.5cms x 2cms. Pp.xii/168, with 47 full-page illustrations engraved facsimile from the author's drawings. Red pictorial cloth, slightly cocked, rubbed with uneven toning to rear board and a few light spots to front, gilt title to spine, spine worn and faded. A scarce and interesting item. Good.

Keywords: Johnston History Slave Africa Western Sudan North Africa Niger Delta Cross River Negro Slaves Barbary States Equatorial African Mbudikum Old Calabar Illustrated 48893 Africa: : 19th Century


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