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Barbot on Guinea - Volume II (Paperback)
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Barbot on Guinea - Volume II (Paperback)
Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series
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Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French
slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683
began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage
journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous
printed sources. The work was interrupted by his flight to England,
as a Huguenot refugee, in 1685, and not finished until 1688. When
Barbot found that his lengthy French account could not be
published, he rewrote it in English, enlarging it even further, and
then continually revising it up to his death in 1712. The
manuscript was eventually published in 1732. Barbot's book had
considerable influence on later European attitudes to Black Africa
and the Atlantic slave trade and in modern writings on both
subjects is frequently cited as evidence. The French account serves
as the base for the present edition and is presented in English
translation but additional material in the later English version is
inserted. The edition concentrates on Barbot's original
information. He copied much from earlier sources - this derived
material is omitted but is identified in the notes. The original
material, mainly on Senegal, Sierra Leone, River Sess, Gold Coast
and the Calabars, is extensively annotated, not least with
comparative references to other sources. Apart from its narrative
interest, the edition thus provides a starting point for the
critical assessment of a range of early sources on Guinea. The
edition opens with an introductory essay discussing Barbot's life
and career and analysing his sources. Barbot provided a large
number of his own drawings of topographical and ethnographical
features, in particular drawings of almost all of the European
forts in Guinea. Many of these illustrations are reproduced. This
volume covers the coast from the River Volta to Cape Lopez. The
main pagination of this and the previous volume (2nd series 175)
series is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback
edition of the volume first published in 1991.
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