Author: [OLDENDORP, CHRISTIAN GEORG ANDREAS]:
Title: Tillförlåtlig underrättelse om negrerne på Guinea kusten, samt de derifrån hämtade slafvarnas närvarande belägenhet, medfart, seder och sinnelag. Under deras träldom på de christnas nybyggen i Vestindien. Jämte bihang om Caribiske nationen, sockerberedningen, m.m. Two parts in one volume. Upsala, Johan Edman, på egen bekostnad, 1784.
Description: . 12mo. Pp. 187, (5). One leaf with small piece of lower margin cut out (p. A3). Modern boards. Rare Swedish work on slavery including information about the geography and political situation of Guinea; local customs and religion of the natives; the transfer of slaves to America; and about their situation in the West Indies. At end a chapter devoted to the sugar cane. Partly based on Oldendorp's account of the mission history of the Virgin Islands ("Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Brüder auf dem caribischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix, und S.Jan"). Oldendorp was a German minister in the Moravian Church who was sent to the Danish West Indies in 1767-8. He based his account of interviews of black residents from thirty different tribes. Not in Sabin.

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, west indies, slavery, travel, exploration, virgin islands, caribean, guinea, america, amerika, americana, sugar, sugar cane


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