Caption, Bambooing a hut, near Freetown. Bambooing refers to thatching of the house, described in the article (p. 436).

The Illustrated London News (Oct. 25, 1856), vol. 29, p. 434.

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Africa--Rivers

"House Construction and Roofing, Sierra Leone, 1856", 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/2732