Lagos in the slave trade era

According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyage Database, 308,800 people were sold across the Atlantic from Lagos in 1776–1850. Lagos became a major slave port in the late 1700s and into the 1850s. Much of the human trafficking which occurred there was nominally illegal, and records from this time and place are not comprehensive.  British and French traders did a large share of this business until 1807, when they were replaced by Portuguese and Spanish. By 1826–1850 the British Royal Navy was intervening significantly with Lagos slave exports

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