THE SLAVE TRADE IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA

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It is believed that Iboland and the States in the Niger Delta suffered more from the slave trade than did many other West African States. Every year thousands of able men and women were carried away across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World .

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Bonny became the chief port for this inhuman trade. At the peak of the trade no fewer than 20,000 slaves were sold in Bonny every year for transportation to the Americas.

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Of these more than three-quarters were taken from Iboland. In a matter of twenty years, over a quarter of a million people passed through the port of Bonny.