Illustrations to Chapter Two ("Delagoa") of 'Narrative of the Voyage of H.M. Vessels Leven and Barracouta' by Thomas Boteler.

Eleven illustrations marked "Chapter 2" or similar, of landscapes, objects, people and scenes from Delagoa (now known as Maputo). See page level records for descriptions of each.

Administrative / biographical background
The slave trade at Delagoa Bay had been expanding since about 1810 in response to demands for labour from plantations in Brazil and on the Mascarene Islands. During the late 1820s, slave exports from the Delagoa Bay area reached several thousand a year, in advance of what proved to be an ineffective attempt to abolish the Brazilian trade in 1830.

Record Details

Item reference: BTL/2/1/2-12; MSS/77/066 MSS/77/066.0
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1822-1823
Creator: Boteler, Thomas
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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