The text in the image states "cases des negres" or "palisaded village." In the center, a woman with child on her back were cultivating a garden, while in the foreground, a European was trading with Africans. The caption for this scene states "il faut achepter [sic] la permission de faire de l'eau en faisant present d'eau de vie a l'alcaty" or "in order to acquire fresh water one needs permission from the chief and must give him a present of brandy." Note the smoking pipe and weapons on the right. The 1699 Amsterdam edition contains a similar, albeit derivative copy, of this image (facing p. 7).

Francois Froger, Relation d'un Voyage fait en 1695, 1696, & 1697 aux Cotes d'Afriqu. . . Bresil, Cayenne & Isles Antilles (Paris, 1698), facing p. 7. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library; also The John Carter Brown Library.

French

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Africa--Rivers

"Untitled Image (West African Domestic Life)", 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/2646