Historical context: The bight of Benin Benin’s significance in the slave trade cannot be overstated. The country was a major port of departure for enslaved Africans, with an estimated 1.5 ...

Once you understand this practice, you see it everywhere. The Bight of Benin was not called that by the people of the Benin kingdom. It was named by the Europeans who sailed across the bight (an ...

Benin is one of the few African countries that is invested in offering citizenship to descendants of the enslaved Benin’s President, Patrice Talon, passed a law in September 2024 that gives ...

European merchants deported an estimated 1.5 million slaves from the Bight of Benin, a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo and part of modern-day Nigeria, said Ana Lucia Araujo ...

From the Bight of Benin alone, where 20 years ago not a single puncheon of palm oil was exported, during the past year the exportation of oil was estimated at nearly 17,000 tons, and the value at ...

European merchants deported an estimated 1.5 million slaves from the Bight of Benin, a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo and part of modern-day Nigeria, said Ana Lucia Araujo ...

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