Soldier with sword, pistol and spear, Senegal, 18th century. A negro foot soldier. Soldat negre. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the S

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Soldier with sword, pistol and spear, Senegal, 18th century. A negro foot soldier. Soldat negre. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

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