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Female East African Slave

Images of African Slavery and the Slave Trade

From Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com

Female East African SlaveSource: "Africa and its Explorations as told by its Explorers" by Mungo Park et al., London 1907.
A regularly reproduced image, now regarded as that of a female East African slave. Married women of the Babuckur would pierce the edges of their ears and around their lips, insetting short sections of dried grass.
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