a black and white photo of a woman and a child
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a black and white photo of a woman and a child

Believed to be from the later 1800’s, at a cocoa bean plantation, location unknown. It's unknown if these images are of workers post-slavery abolishing in the colonies, or if the people picture are indeed slaves. Read about the history of the history of exploration and the cocoa industry in West Africa here: https://www.antislavery.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1_cocoa_report_2004.pdf

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