Some Historical Essentials: From the Slave Trade to Presence and Past Legacies and Memories In Eastern Nigeria and Cameroon From 1800 To 2014

SUH HILLARY SAMA

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  • Law, History and Biography, Social Sciences, Socialogy
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  • The global trade that took place and Existed in The Planet Earth excluding the antartica continent discovered in the modern recent past began as an international affair when people as labourers started moving from one continent, tribes, country or regions to another to perform skilled and unskilled labour, works in different type. Many European as well as Africans left their homes and settled conditionally and unconditionally respectively in their new world and other areas of the world. The trade on slaves was strong enough and had hard conditions or variables applications depending on the mentality of the group of persons leaving in a particular region hence having different origin or emergence in its origin. The transatlantic slave trade as an example gave as consent as it marked the beginning of human trade in Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.1 As an example within the Gulf of Guinea coast, the traditional believes and cultural religions gave rise to acquire slaves due to higher criminalism against the rights and will of people. Here, we discover the Tengu cult, a male sect society which regulated various Religions, commercial, political and even most often nowadays, criminal aspects beyond the contemporary weakness and fragmented hereditary Doula rulers. Due to the fact that slaves were excluded to the Tengu society hence was a chance for their exportation. Other cults with the Gulf were Efik, Ekpe of south Eastern Nigeria. The Obasinjom of the Mamfe and Calabar region usually referred to such as cults that brings perfections in the society hence establishing a decent jurisdicial control put to serve effectively for part and entirety of the Gulf as the Douala slaves were also put to move mobile commercial uses. The Canoesmen does much transaction on the rivers for slaves as well as fishing which the political power at it highest level required a degree of legitimacy ultimately as history predicts in by slaves.This as noted brought income that should provoked or surfaced developmental spirits.This juncture clearly evoked as interest, slaves became a kind of political chattel, steady for suppliers to Atlantic slave trade and others secuite-breakers around the global systems.1 Ralph A . Austen, slavery and slave trade in the Cameroon coast. As such, the origin in the hinterlands. Of the territory indicating “slaves constitute major commodity in later nineteenth century trade between Douala and hinterland. This as inheritance, gift exchanges, discharge of debts or loans as pawn guarantee the eventual
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  • June 09, 2023
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