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  • 12 - Slave Voices from the Cameroon Grassfields

  • from Part Two - The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
  • Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University, New York, Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    13 May 2013, pp 137-148

  • Summary

    The Cameroon coast occupies a big portion of the Bight of Biafra. Between the fifteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, this was one of the major regions of Atlantic slave exports. This chapter shows that oral accounts can provide useful details on slave-master relationships and life in slavery in both the non-centralized and centralized polities. The first part of the chapter is a narrative, which is recorded from Ebeagwa village, in Upper Banyang, in 1981 and again in 1997. It is the story of the conflict between a slave master known as Ashunken and his slaves. The second part focuses on Essoh-Attah, which is one of the centralized polities situated in the Cameroon Grassfields, an area in the hinterland of the country. Banyang slaves could own property and had rights that they fiercely defended against the attacks of unscrupulous masters.