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Slave market place, Zanzibar [historic title], 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047C/1

Scope and Contents

102 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). A view looking across the open market place towards dilapidated building, with enslaved persons seated in the right foreground. Grant's note beneath the print reads: 'Slave market-place, Zanzibar - very difficult to take - slaves and arabs keep running away leaving only a line of women slaves whose legs and a face or two may be observed - the women's entire dress is a blue cotton sheet or cloth tied tight under arms and extending as far as the knee - their heads are cropped as short as scissors can crop them - very often they have for ornament a hole through the upper lip - at the market they come out very clean. Houses are blocks of coralline partly plastered - an indistinct wily arab squats to the right eyeing the women'.

Dates

  • Creation: 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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Language of Materials

English

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Good condition.

General

SG.

Finding aid date

2003-03-20 16:25:05+00:00

Includes index.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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