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The Slave Coast is the name of the coastal areas of present Togo, Benin (formerly Dahomey) and western Nigeria, a fertile region of coastal Western Africa along the Bight of Benin.
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Definitions of slave coast at Dictionary.com. ... the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
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More on Slave Coast from Infoplease: Abomey - Abomey Abomey , town (1992 pop. 66,595), S Benin. It is the trade center for an agricultural region ... Guinea, archaic term for ...

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Slave Coast, historical name for that section of the Gulf of Guinea coast of West Africa lying between the mouth of the Niger River on the east and the mouth of the Volta River on the west. It includes the coastal areas of present-day Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and eastern Ghana. Between the 17th and early 19th centuries the Slave Coast was the center of West African slave trading.