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The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Selections from

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Alfred Burdon Ellis

British Army officer and ethnographer AB Ellis was known for his writings on West Africa. His final publication takes an anthropological mag…

Chapter 3: Jamaica - Country, Part 1

In The West Indies and the Spanish Main

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Anthony Trollope

In The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope recounts his experiences traveling around the area of what is now known as the Car…

Proof and Disproof

In Love Songs

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning shared one of the great literary and romantic marriages of the 19th century, eloping to Italy to escap…

Introduction

In Brazil. Stray notes from Bahia

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James Wetherell

Observations and reflections from James Wetherell who was Britain's Vice-Consul of Bahia and prior, Vice-Consul of Paraiba, during a period …