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Book SynopsisJean 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 When Barbot found that his lengthy French account could not be published, he rewrote it in English, enlarging it even further, and then continually revising it up to his death in 1712.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 Bar
Table of ContentsVOLUME II: Part Two: Description of the Gold Coast of Guinea; Part Three: Description of Guinea.Rio da Yalta to Cape Lopo Gonzalvez; Appendix A: The attempted pubEcation in 1689; Appendix B: The two; Appendix C: Analytical table of illustrations; Bibliography
