On the contrary, it was anchored on the fact that britain was able to convince the diplomats at berlin. Forced slavery and self imposed slavery in nigeria and beyond forced slavery and self imposed slavery in nigeria and beyond on december 6, 2017 12. The abolition of the slave trade in southeastern nigeria, 1885. The abolition of the slave trade in southeastern nigeria, 18851950. As a child in the mid 1750s, olaudah equiano was captured by slave traders and.
Slave trade in nigeria, destroyed a lot of families, ruined the nigerian economy, decentralized societies at large and hunger and famine was not left out. Using data from recent years, i find that the relation between slave trade intensity and ethnic groups literacy persists in contemporary. Labour was needed to cultivate the new source of wealth for the nigerian elites. Map of caribbean with individual islands available to download as a pdf. Slave capturing was essentially an african venture, with africans playing the roles of enslavers and enslaved. Many north east scots joined the fight to abolish the slave trade. The transatlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in. My greatgrandfather, the nigerian slavetrader the new. The impact of the slave trade on literacy in africa economic. The causes and consequences of africas slave trades. Primary resourceshistorical documents, literary texts, and works of artthematically. Oral tradition and the people of nigeria, ghana and benin. Mali, slave accounts of life in africa before capture. The profusion of documents and records on the european and american aspects, and the absence of african voices in these records, has given rise to this.
In the early 1800s brinch narrated his memoirs to benjamin prentiss, an anti slavery journalist, who published the blind african slave, or memoirs of boyrereau brinch, nicknamed jeffrey brace, in 1810. Nigeria, slave accounts of life in africa before capture, freedom. About one fifth of the enslaved africans brought to colonial america and the united states were from the regions known in the slave trade as the bight of benin and the bight of biafra, referring to the large coastal bays to the south of presentday togo, benin, nigeria, cameroon, and gabon. Did you know that ikot abasi one of the local government areas in akwa ibom state served as the collection point for slaves in the 19th century. Nigeria, slave accounts of life in africa before capture. Slavery and the british transatlantic slave trade the national. Because the slave trades weakened ties between villages, they also dis couraged the formation of larger communities and broader ethnic identities. Oral tradition relating to slavery and slave trade in.
A consequence of the ending of the slave trade was the expansion of domestic slavery as nigerian businessmen replaced trade in human chattel with increased export of primary commodities. Slave trade in nigeria, the ikot abasi angle youtube. Slavery in nigeria summary taken together, all evidence presented shows that slave trade in nigeria had adverse effects on the captives and also on the society at large. The causes and consequences of africas slave trades nathan nunn1 august 2008 abstract. The people in nigeria, ghana and benin have commonly experi enced the social occurrences of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, during the periods in which the latter were endemic in the areas. Primary resourceshistorical documents, literary texts, and works of art thematically. Slave trade in nigeria the true history explained oasdom. Pdf this study examines the yoruba society within the context of the nineteenth centurys global. It further examines how the phenomenon of slave trade abolition contributed to the. It is an as told to narrative with prentiss as the firstperson narrator i recounting brinchs life and adding his commentary on africa. It covers records created throughout the trade, from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The history of nigeria slave trade the history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.
The south western part of what is now nigeria, which is predominantly occupied by the. This includes a wide range of documents from across the national archives. However obikili 20 shows that higher slave export intensity is correlated with lower literacy even across small geographical area in nigeria. However the social, economic, and legal positions of slaves were vastly different in different systems of slavery in different times and places.
The south western part of what is now nigeria, w hich is predominantly occupied by the. Forced slavery and self imposed slavery in nigeria and. Therefore, the slave trades may be an important factor explaining africas high level of ethnic fractionalization today. Slavery and slave trade in nigeria african books collective. European and muslim buyers would meet african slave providers in trading posts and. Pdf the impact of the slave trade on african economies.