Those who boarded slave ships from the Bight of Benin, or the Slave Coast of Africa, lost more than their homes—they lost their identities. New maps of a former kingdom made by a University of ...

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

The waterfront development is located at what was the main slave port for the Bight of Benin. From this region, almost two million enslaved Africans departed during the transatlantic slave trade.

In Benin, it transformed the memorial landscape. For example, the Da-Silva Museum in Porto Novo, Benin’s administrative capital, opened in 1998.