"Fort of Moor Fort, on the Island of Moyella" (caption translation). Moyella Island is one of the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean. This engraving shows a fort, Europeans purchasing slaves and transporting them to a waiting ship.

Pieter van der Aa, La Galerie Agréable du Monde (Leide, 1729). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-308440.

French

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Africa--Comoros

"Fort de Maures, sur l'isle Moyella", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1981