Title: Journal d'un voyage sur les costes d'Afrique et aux Indes d'Espagne
Description: An account of a voyage, written by an anonymous Frenchman who sailed from France to Africa and Buenos Aires aboard a slave ship belonging to the "Asiento" Company, which was entitled to transport salves to South America by a treaty with Spain. It gives a detailed account of the slaves, describing the way they looked and dressed, and gives an extensive report on the slave trade in Africa, Brazil and Buenos Aires. Authorship is sometimes attributed to the French theologian and physician Pierre Le Lorrain de Vallemont (1649-1721).
Subjects: Slave trade, Description and travel, Travel
Places: France, Africa, West Indies, South America, Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay), Rio de la Plata Region