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
17 - Etchu Richard Ayuk’s Manuscript on the Slave Trade and Social Segregation in the Ejaghamland
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
Etchu Richard Ayuk was very interested in researching and documenting the culture of Ejagham people. The Ejagham people live in a sparsely populated and hilly rain forest crisscrossed by many rivers and streams. The slave trade in the Cross River area began at Rio del Rey. Most of what one know about the slave trade from this region has been written by European traders, missionaries, and colonial officers, all of whom were located on the coast. Etchu's document provides some insights in this direction. He starts his text by explaining that individuals who had been convicted of witchcraft or crime were usually sold as slaves. He then explains the organisation of the slave trade, the tasks those slaves who were not sold to the coast had to carry out, and the rituals or associations through which memories of the social segregation of slaves and free born are still kept alive.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 191 - 203Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013