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Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P.

The French at Kilwa Island; An Episode in Eighteenth-century East African History

1965

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Year of publication
1965
Place of printing
Oxford. Clarendon Press
Author
Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P.
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Africa Anthropology
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xvi, 243 pp, frontis, 4 maps including folding, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (light wear at spine end, not price clipped), few light pencil marks in margin, else clean near fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on early letters by an eyewitness, the work describes a French attempt to establish a slave trading centre on the Tanganyika (now Tanzania) coast at Kilwa, and describes in detail the Afro-Arab society, trade, politics in a period not previously described. Largely from the pen of a surgeon turned slave trade but with an extensive introduction providing historical perspective.