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Central Africa: 'Gang Of Captives met at Mbame’s on their way to Tette' (David Livingstone, 1857)

Central Africa: 'Gang Of Captives met at Mbame’s on their way to Tette' (David Livingstone, 1857)

'The slave party, a long line of manacled men, women, and children, came wending their way round the hill and into the valley, on the side of which the village stood.

The black drivers, armed with muskets, and bedecked with various articles of finery, marched jauntily in the front, middle, and rear of the line; some of them blowing exultant notes out of long tin horns. They seemed to feel that they were doing a very noble thing, and might proudly march with an air of triumph'.

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