Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY SLAVE TRADE (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) PALMER, H. R. History of the First Twelve Years of the Reign of Mai Idris Aloom of Bornu (1571-1583) by his Imam Ahmed ibn Fartua. Large folding map. 121 pages. Tall 8vo, original purple cloth, somewhat faded; title in gilt within a rectangular cartouche on the upper cover. Lagos: Government Printer, 1926

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first edition in english, covering the years of Mai Idris' reign, recounting the raids to take slaves from surrounding tribes. This reads like an exciting novel, covering the earliest period of the more organized slave trade to the Portuguese and other Europeans rather than the more common inter-tribal warfare and hostage taking.