Warua Slave-Driver and Slave
Description
This sketch shows a captive African woman, with a mask over her head walking in front of a Warua male, with a spear. The image is not described in the text, but it appears the mask is attached to some sort of line which winds around the waist of the slave driver and then attaches to the wrist of the captive female. Based on observations made in November, 1874, among the Warua, a group in Tanganyika. Verney Lovett Cameron (1844–1894) was the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. His travel memoirs contain valuable suggestions for the opening up of the continent from north to south, including using the great lakes as a Cape to Cairo connection.
Source
Verney Lovett Cameron, Across Africa (New York, 1877), p. 309.
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
Cameron309
Spatial Coverage
Africa--East Central
Item sets
Citation
"Warua Slave-Driver and Slave", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 12, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/388