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A 1729 map showing the Slave Coast The Slave Coast is still marked on this c. 1914 map by John Bartholomew & Co. of Edinburgh. Major slave trading areas of western Africa, 15th–19th centuries. The Slave Coast is a historical region along the Atlantic coast of West Africa, encompassing parts of modern-day Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.
Circa-1570 Portuguese map of the Costa da Mina labeled as Amina with the São Jorge da Mina prominently displayed.. The Costa da Mina (lit. ' Coast of the Mine '), sometimes shortened to Mina, is a Portuguese term for the loosely defined coastal region in Western Africa that sometimes overlapped with parts of the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast.
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Herman Moll's 1727 map labels these "Grain Coast", "Slave Coast", and "Gold Coast". "Negroland" was the territory to the north of this, along the east–west axis of the Niger River, and the west-facing coast. Moll's map labels Gambia, Senegal, Mandinga and many other territories.
The Gold Coast was the name for a region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa that ... Richard William Seale's 1750 map of the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast, Slave Coast
Most of them settled in coastal areas. The Atlantic slave trade began in the 16th century, and for the next two hundred years the coastal region was a trading centre for Europeans in search of slaves, earning Togo and the surrounding region the name "The Slave Coast". Togoland (R. Hellgrewe, 1908)
Map of Meridian Line set under the Treaty of Tordesillas The Slave Trade by Auguste François Biard, 1840. The Atlantic slave trade is customarily divided into two eras, known as the first and second Atlantic systems. Slightly more than 3% of the enslaved people exported from Africa were traded between 1525 and 1600, and 16% in the 17th century.
Historical associations with the Atlantic slave trade led to the region becoming known as the Slave Coast. As in many other regions across Africa , powerful indigenous kingdoms along the Bight of Benin relied heavily on a long-established slave trade that expanded greatly after the arrival of European powers and became a global trade with the ...