Warua Slave-Driver and Slave
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.
Image Title
Warua Slave-Driver and Slave
RegID
SI-OB-3
Date
1874
Title
Warua Slave-Driver and Slave
Source
Verney Lovett Cameron, Across Africa (New York, 1877), p. 309.
Language
English
Item sets
Capture of Slaves & Coffles in Africa
Spatial Coverage
Africa--East Central
Reproduced In
Verney Lovett Cameron, Across Africa (New York, 1877), p. 309.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy; Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
Cameron309