Exposing Cameroon's connection to the transatlantic slave trade via its slavery disaspora and Bimbia: research impetus, methodology, and initial findings

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Title:	Exposing Cameroon's connection to the transatlantic slave trade via its slavery disaspora and Bimbia: research impetus, methodology, and initial findings
Author:	Aubrey, Lisa
Year:	2013
Periodical:	Annales de la Faculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Volume:	1
Issue:	15
Pages:	191-221
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Cameroon
Subjects:	slave trade slaves diasporas research methods
Abstract:	This essay is a description of a research project that the author undertook in 2010 when African slavery diasporans were attempting to connect to Cameroon, a country little discussed in the history of the Transatlantic slave trade. The essay addresses the impetus for this research which is grounded in the age-old desire of human beings to know their roots, claim their history, and own their identities, and spotlights Bimbia, a Transatlantic slave trade site and the first recognized in the country as a national heritage. [ASC Leiden abstract]