The Slave Trade and Culture in The Bight of Biafra
By: G. Ugo Nwokeji
The human traffi c through which African societies supplied the labor needs of theAmericasinvokes many fundamental questions. Some of the most persistent questions are whyAfricasupplied so many captives; how the trade was organized; what its political, social, and cultural implications were; what the gender and ethnic composition was; and how the trade affected the societies involved. The answers to these questions are the primary focus of this book. They are addressed from the vantage point of the Bight of Biafra, a major exporting region, extending from the Niger Delta (exclusive of the River Nun) in modernNigeriatoCapeLopezin modernGabon. The region supplied an estimated 13 percent of all captives exported between 1551 and 1850, which made it the third most important supply region after West-Central Africa and the Bight of Benin. [download]
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