View of the slave-trade island of Goree, Senegal, 18th century. Fort St. Michael on top of the hill, government house, hospital and barracks below. View of Goree. Vue d’ile de Goree, prise du cote de l’hopital. 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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