Selasa, 06 Juni 2017

Slave Factories

Paul Belloni Du Chaillu’s inside look at the African slave trade.  In 1856 the French-American adventurer Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (left) set out on a journey through Africa that lasted four years and covered some 8,000 miles. His descriptions of gorillas, cannibals and Pygmies in Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa created a sensation when …

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