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Interesting work on slavery by an anonymous Frenchman
[SLAVERY - AFRICA - BRAZIL].Journal d'un voyage sur les costes d'Afrique et aux Indes d'Espagne; avec une description particuliere de la riviere de la Plata, de Buenosayres, & autres lieux; commencé en 1702 & fini en 1706.     Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1730. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. With woodcut frontispiece of a "Sauvage du Perou", woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black. (2), 372 pp. Second edition with a new title of the original edition being published in 1723 in Amsterdam and Rouen, of an interesting anonymous report of a voyage written by a Frenchman who sailed from France to Africa and Buenos Aires aboard a slave ship belonging to the "Asiento" Company, which was entitled to transport slaves to South America after a treaty with Spain. The author gives a detailed account of the slaves; he describes the way they looked and dressed, and he gives an elaborate report on the slave trade in Africa, Brazil - the author also visited Rio de Janeiro and Bahia - and Buenos Aires. The whole voyage has been described very minutely, as the author reports his observations every day. The ship left on 14 July 1702, and arrived on 5 September in Africa, where they stayed for 5 days, before sailing further to Loango. Loango was the place where the slaves were traded. On 20 August, they arrived at Buenos Aires. On 30 October 1705, the author started his voyage back to France, where he arrived in March 1706. The role of the author on the ship has remained unknown, in spite of the research carried out by Regine Pernoud (L'Amerique du Sud au XVIII siècle, Nantes, 1942-Cahiers d'histoire et de Bibliographie, nr. 3) in the archives of the "Asiento" Company, which today are in the National Archives in Paris. But his seasickness which he doesn't hide from his readers is an important indication that the author is not a sailor, and his efforts to learn the Spanish language point out that he hadn't traveled to Spanish-speaking countries before. Good copy with ms. dedication to Madame de Maisonrouge.- (Covers slightly rubbed).
Sabin 36685; Borba de Moraes I, p. 430 ('excellent book on the subject'); not in Barbier; NUC mentions editions of 1723 and 1737.
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