Slave Coast, in 18th- and 19th-century history, the section of the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, in Africa, extending approximately from the Volta River in the west to Lagos, in modern Nigeria, or, alternatively, the Niger Delta in the east (in the present-day republics of Togo, Benin, and Nigeria).
This guide serves as a companion to the exhibtion On the Move: Stories of African American Migration and Mobility (Wilson Special Collections Library, 2019). The exhibit documented African American experiences of migration and mobility over the last 400 y The transatlantic slave trade is the umbrella term for the 300-year triangular pattern of ship routes which included the forced movement of
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured a 17th-century slave fortress in Cape Coast, one of many coastal buildings active during the transatlantic slave trade that forcibly removed 12.5 million people, mainly from Central and West Africa, and sent them to work across the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean. THE NEW YORK TIMES
Thereafter, the trade to Spanish colonies was opened to all comers, and Portuguese slave traders soon became a more familiar sight in African and American ports. Before 1641, 240,000 Africans were transported to the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and in Central America, but a larger number—337,000—were deposited in Recife, Salvador da
South America history 1789CE. The Spanish and Portuguese empires rule most of South America between them. See a map of Africa in 1789. The Atlantic Slave Trade is at its height, and having a hugely disruptive impact on many African societies.
The Start of the Trans-Atlantic Trade of Enslaved People. When the Portuguese first sailed down the Atlantic African coast in the 1430s, they were interested in one thing: gold. However, by 1500 they had already traded 81,000 enslaved Africans to Europe, nearby Atlantic islands, and to Muslim merchants in Africa.
Location: Dakar, Senegal. Cost: $100+ for a guided tour from Dakar. Duration: Half a day. Well preserved and organized tour s. Gorée Island, close to Dakar, is a tiny island that is arguably the most-known slave-trading center in Africa. (Other ports were bigger, but this is one of the most preserved sites).
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