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SLAVE COAST

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COAST . The name given to that See also:part of the coast of See also:West See also:Africa extending from the See also:river See also:Volta to the See also:Niger See also:delta; forming part of the See also:Guinea coast (see GUINEA). From the beginning of the 16th to the end of the 18th See also:century this region was a See also:principal resort of the Europeans engaged in the slave See also:trade. Politically the Slave Coast is divided between See also:Germany, See also:France and See also:Great See also:Britain, the See also:German See also:section forming part of See also:Togoland (q.v.), the See also:French section the seaboard of See also:Dahomey (q.v.), and the See also:British section the See also:Lagos See also:province of See also:Nigeria (see LAGOS).

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