Mungo Park (explorer)
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Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of
Posthumous portrait (1859) by unknown artist
Mungo Park commemorative medal
View of Kamalia in Mandingo country, Africa, from: Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Park was one of the first European explorers of Central Africa, and was one of the first explorers mentioned in Reisen in Central-Afrika – von Mungo Park bis auf Dr. Barth u. Dr. Vogel (1859) (Travels in Central-Africa – from Mungo Park to Dr. Barth and Dr. Vogel)
Slavery in Africa
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Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in much of the rest of the ancient and medieval world. When
Mungo Park (explorer)
…Park 1799, p. 82 Park encountered a group of slaves when travelling through Mandinka country in or near modern-day Mali: They were all very inquisitive, but they viewed me at first with looks of horror…
Burning of a village in Africa and capture of its inhabitants (February 1859)
Slaves for sacrifice at the Annual Customs of Dahomey – from The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa, 1793
Young slave women in Luanda, c. 1897
Malagasy slaves (Andevo) carrying Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar