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v. t. e. The Slave Coast is a historical name formerly used for that part of coastal West Africa along the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin that is located between the Volta River and the Lagos Lagoon. [1][2] The name is derived from the region's history as a major source of African people sold into slavery during the Atlantic slave trade ...
The Kingdom of Whydah (/ ˈhwɪdə, ˈhwɪdˌɔː / known locally as; Glexwe / Glehoue, but also known and spelt in old literature as; Hueda, Whidah, Ajuda, Ouidah, Whidaw, Juida, and Juda[1] (Yoruba: Igelefe; French: Ouidah) was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. [2]
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 Dutch Slave Coast (Dutch: Slavenkust) refers to the trading posts of the Dutch West India Company on the Slave Coast, which lie in contemporary Ghana, Benin, Togo, and Nigeria. The primary purpose of the trading post was to supply slaves for the Dutch colonies in the Americas. Dutch involvement on the Slave Coast started with the ...
Cape Coast in 1747 Map of Cape Coast Castle (1869) In 1757, during the Seven Years' War, a French naval squadron badly damaged and nearly captured Cape Coast Castle. [12] This event was likely one of the most important reasons to entirely reconstruct the Castle, which was quite notorious for its collapsing walls and leaking roofs. [13]
Forced labour and slavery. Slavery on the Barbary Coast refers to the enslavement of people taken captive by the Barbary corsairs of North Africa. According to Robert Davis, author of Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters, between 1 million and 1.2 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and The Ottoman ...
Jacobus Capitein. Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c. 1717 – 1 February 1747) was a Dutch writer, Calvinist clergyman and missionary best known for being the first individual of African descent to be ordained as a minister in an established Protestant church. Born in Western Africa, Capitein was taken to the Dutch Republic at a young age ...
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...