Le pays des négres

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names: La Selve, Edgar, 1849-1892 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1881; Place: Paris; Publisher: Hachette et cie.
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare 917.294-L (La Selve, E. Pays des nègres)
Topics: Haiti -- Description and travel; Haiti -- History
Genres: Illustrations
Notes: Content: Book decorated with a map and 24 engravings
Physical Description: Engravings; Extent: Vii, 376 p. plates, map, ports. 18 cm.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR22883802-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11718496; Library of Congress Control Number: 01023448; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4c1e8f10-c6b3-012f-3086-58d385a7bc34