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By 1826–1850, the British Royal Navy was intervening significantly with Lagos slave exports. [21] Whether British conquest of Nigeria resulted from a benevolent motive to end slavery or more instrumental motives of wealth and power, remains a topic of dispute between African and European historians. [22]
She allegedly owned over 360 personal slaves. [5] Following British victory in the Reduction of Lagos, the British removed Oba Kosoko from his throne and replaced him with Akitoye, who was backed by Tinubu. The British had Akitoye sign the 1852 Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos, which required Lagosians to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.
With the arrival of the transatlantic slave trade, traditional slave traders in southeastern Nigeria became suppliers of slaves to European slave traders. [4] Although local slavery was officially prohibited by the colonial British administration from the mid-1880s, [ 6 ] they tacitly permitted it to continue well into the 1930s, [ 7 ] ending ...
In Britain's early 19th century fight against the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, its West Africa Squadron, or Preventive Squadron as it was also known, continued to pursue Portuguese, American, French, and Cuban slave ships and to impose anti-slavery treaties with West African coastal chiefs with so much doggedness that they created a strong presence along the West African coast from Sierra Leone ...
The British occupied Benin, which was absorbed into the British Niger Coast Protectorate and eventually into British colonial Nigeria. A general emancipation of slaves followed in the wake of British occupation, and with it came an end to human sacrifice. [28] However, the British instituted a system of drafting locals to work as forced ...
Olaudah Equiano (/ ə ˈ l aʊ d ə /; c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (/ ˈ v æ s ə /), was a writer and abolitionist.According to his memoir, he was from the village of Essaka in present day southern Nigeria.
The Igbo of Igboland (in present-day Nigeria) became one of the principal ethnic groups to be enslaved during the Atlantic slave trade. An estimated 14.6% of all enslaved people were taken from the Bight of Biafra , a bay of the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the Nun outlet of the Niger River (Nigeria) to Limbe ( Cameroon ) to Cape Lopez ...
Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria.Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the threat of force by Commander Beddingfield of HMS Prometheus who was accompanied by the Acting British Consul, William McCoskry.