The French Encounter with Africans : White Response to Blacks 1530 - 1880 de Cohen, Wiliam B - 1980

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Book is slightly musty. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. Some hand written text marked out on endpaper. 360 p. w/ notes, index. The first study of the French reaction to large nbumbers of black Africans, from the 16th century through the partition of the continent in the 19th c.