Old Calabar with King Eyo Honesty’s Canoe and H.M.S. Rattler Saluting, 1850
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Old Calabar was an important port of slave embarkation in the Bight of Benin, present-day Nigeria. The image shows the town of Ephraim, near Old Calabar, located in the background, with H.M.S. Rattler saluting King Eyo Honesty. |
| The Illustrated London News, 22 June 1850. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries. | |
