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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 Atlantic slave trade took 70,000 people per year, primarily from the west coast of Africa, at its peak in the mid-1700s. [81] The trans-Saharan slave trade involved the capture of peoples from the continental interior, who were then shipped overseas through ports on the Red Sea and elsewhere. [161]
In West Africa, Efik slave dealers participated in slave dealing as a form of protection against enslavement. [125] African resistance movements were carried out in every phase of the slave trade to resisting marches to the slave holding stations, resistance at the slave coast, and resistance on slave ships. [126]
A 1706 map of coastal West Africa with São Jorge da Mina shown as "S. George del Mina". Mina (Portuguese: mine) in Costa da Mina refers to gold mining, and was used in the term A Mina (Portuguese: the mine) around 1471 to denote the coastal Ghanian town of Shama and the surrounding area where the Portuguese first purchased gold in the region.
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. These efforts were magnified after 1833 when slave trading was made illegal throughout the ...
The areas impacted included East Africa, Southern Arabia, the west coast of India, Indian ocean islands (including Madagascar) and southeast Asia including Java. The source of slaves was primarily in sub-saharan Africa, but also included other parts of Africa and the Middle East, Indian Ocean islands, as well as south Asia.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Slave Coast can mean: the Slave Coast of West Africa; the Dutch Slave Coast This page was last edited on ...