West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era
by
Finn Fuglestad
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due...