Slave Trading Station, Mozambique, 1850

Description

Caption, Burning of a slave establishment by British seamen and marines, at Keonga, river Mozama, in the Mozambique Channel. The accompanying article describes the destruction in the previous June of this African-owned station which was defended by a cannon and by about 300 free natives, with muskets, besides several bowmen and spearmen.

Source

The Illustrated London News (Jan. 18, 1851), vol. 18, p. 44.

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

ILN044

Spatial Coverage

Africa--East Central

Item sets

Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas

Citation

"Slave Trading Station, Mozambique, 1850 ", 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/2722
Caption, Burning of a slave establishment by British seamen and marines, at Keonga, river Mozama, in the Mozambique Channel. The accompanying article describes the destruction in the previous June of this African-owned station which was defended by a cannon and by about 300 free natives, with muskets, besides several bowmen and spearmen.
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