Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- 15 Introduction:
- 16 Some Facets of Slavery in the Lamidats of Adamawa in North Cameroon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 17 Etchu Richard Ayuk’s Manuscript on the Slave Trade and Social Segregation in the Ejaghamland
- 18 Writing about the Slave Trade
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
16 - Some Facets of Slavery in the Lamidats of Adamawa in North Cameroon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
from Part Three - Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- 15 Introduction:
- 16 Some Facets of Slavery in the Lamidats of Adamawa in North Cameroon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 17 Etchu Richard Ayuk’s Manuscript on the Slave Trade and Social Segregation in the Ejaghamland
- 18 Writing about the Slave Trade
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
Summary
In Cameroon, a country of Central Africa which stretched from Lake Chad to the Gulf of Guinea, slavery had a triple dimension. Slavery and the slave trade had the particularity of increasing in Adamawa at the very moment when abolition was spreading in other parts of the world. This chapter presents three documents, which localizes the region concerned and presents some facets of slavery as it developed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Adamawa. The first document contains a letter from the Lamido to the chief of the region of Adamawa opposing the progressive elimination of slavery. The second document describes a confidential letter from the chief of the Adamawa region to the chief of the subdivision of Banyo forbidding him from proclaiming the liberation of slaves. The last document presents different penalties and sanction to which the slaves of the Lamidats of Adamawa were subject to.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 182 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013