CONGOLESE SLAVER’S SPEAR POINT, SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY

$110.00
Methodist Missionary Society collection which was circulated among churches in England on Mission Sunday to raise money for the missions. 15 1/2” length. Medially ridged, leaf shaped with conical socket. Collected about 1890 and of great age at that time, likely dating to the transatlantic slave trade which thrived in America before the Emancipation Proclamation. Tribal war at the time served the sole purpose of providing captives for the slave market.
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CONGOLESE SLAVER’S SPEAR POINT, SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY

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