IMAGES OF AFRICAN WOMEN ON BRITISH MAPS OF AFRICA
Ogilby claims African women "have great propensity to, and skill in Sorcery, so that they can charm Serpents."
William Snelgrave alleges that "Negroes are lascivious, given to worship of snakes, and anthropophagous; they will vend their own children."
"They can bewitch any in such manner, as to cause them to die of a languishing Disease."
African women "at all times chew and eat such Herbs and Barks of Trees, as are the greatest incentives to heighten their desires to almost hourly Congresses."
This page was last updated on Dec. 7, 1998 by Lauren Kane