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Slave Coast, name given by European traders to the coast bordering the Bight of Benin on the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa. It was the principal source of slaves from W Africa from the 16th cent. to the mid-19th cent.

Slave Coast

the coast of W Africa between the Volta River and Mount Cameroon, chiefly along the Bight of Benin: the main source of African slaves (16th--19th centuries)

Slave Coast

part of the seacoast of the Gulf of Guinea (Bight of Benin) in Africa between the Niger and Volta rivers. The shore is low-lying and marshy, with lagoons and channels. In the mouths of the rivers and along the shores of the lagoons are mangrove thickets, and beyond them secondary savannas in the west and evergreen forests in the east. The Slave Coast acquired its name from the fact that in the 16th to 18th centuries it was one of Africa’s main areas of the slave trade.

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