COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slavery was common along the Upper Congo River, and in the second half of the 18th century the region became a major source of slaves for the Atlantic Slave Trade, when high slave prices on the coast made long-distance slave trading profitable.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the first 150 years of the trade, West Central Africa supplied nine out of ten African people destined for a life of slavery in the Americas. Except for a fifty-year period between 1676 and 1725, West Central Africa sent more slaves to the Americas than any other region.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most slaves were taken from the area between the Gold coast and the Niger Delta which was soon named the ‘Slave Coast’. Slave trade extended from West Africa to include areas such as Angola and some Eastern Africa countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Velekete Slave Market established in 1502 in Badagry, Lagos State, was significant during the Atlantic slave trade in Badagry as it served as a business point where African middlemen sold slaves to European slave merchants thus making it one of the most populous slave markets in West Africa.