Image Title:
West African slave trade: John Baptist Dasalu in captivity, 1851.
Note:
"The picture of the slave with the wooden fork round his neck is no fancy one. He was an Egba convert, by name John Baptist Dasalu, who, when the King of Dahomey’s troops, male and female, were repulsed from the wall of Abeokuta in 1851, was taken prisoner, For twelve nights Dasalu was fastened down in the position represented in the picture. He remained a prisoner, first at Abomey, then at Whydah for three years, and then was sold to a slaver, and transported to Cuba, whence, after a time, he was set free on the intervention of the British Government." [The Church Missionary Gleaner, p.32]
Source:
Church Missionary Society. 1885. The Church Missionary Gleaner. London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday [etc.], March, p.30. Book at Google
Subject:
Slavery - Captives - Human Trafficking - Captured Slave - Yoked - West Africa - Cuba - Slave Trade - Captivity
Date:
1885
Rights:
Public Domain
Image:
SA-SLAVCAP-24
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