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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.
The coast of Benin with Cotonou port in the background. The Bight of Benin has a long association with slavery, its shore being known as the Slave Coast. From 1807 onwards—after slave trading was made illegal for Britons—the Royal Navy created the West Africa Squadron to suppress and crush the slave trade.
It is estimated that, in the 17th and 18th centuries, 1.4 million slaves were forced to make the trek through the Sahara [10] Captives were enslaved and shipped to the Mediterranean coast, Europe, Arabia, the Western Hemisphere, or to the slave ports and factories along the West and North Africa coasts or South along the Ubanqui and Congo rivers.
The Indian Ocean slave trade, including the Zanzibar slave trade, was combatted by the British in a number of anti-slaveery treaties pressued by the British upon the Sultanate of Zanzibar between 1822 and 1909, each one limiting the slave trade between the Swaihili coast of east Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
From Senegal’s Gorée Island at Africa’s westernmost point to the Nigerian port of Badagry, the sites where slaves spent their final days on African soil have turned into places of pilgrimage ...
It was a major slave trading area which exported more than one million Africans to the United States, the Caribbean and Brazil before closing its trade in the 1860s. [3] In 1700, it had a coastline of around 16 kilometres (10 mi); [ 4 ] under King Haffon , this was expanded to 64 km (40 mi), and stretching 40 km (25 mi) inland.
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.
The Indian Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade, involved the capture and transportation of predominately black African slaves along the coasts, such as the Swahili Coast and the Horn of Africa, and through the Indian Ocean.