Cess Point

Cess Point faces the Atlantic on the Kru coast, west of Cape Palmas. Along this shore, villages including Grand Cess belonged to a seafaring world in which canoes carried people through the heavy surf. Kru fishermen and boatmen developed skills that brought them into contact with European shipping; by the late eighteenth century many worked aboard foreign vessels. The separate communities of this coast shared maritime skills, though each had its own local leaders and connections.