West Africa.

Did you know the Dutch and the Portuguese arrived on the West African coast before the English. 

The first people to arrive in this area were the Portuguese in 1475 or 1485 and they made trade links with the Benin Kingdom. Portuguese brought European textiles manila etc and exported ivory, palm oil etc
In 1470, the Portuguese found an uninhabited island in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa and called it Sao Tome. They decided to set up plantations there, as it had no indigenous people, the Portuguese started exporting slaves from Benin to work on Sao Tome
Events on the other side of the world shaped West Africa. Columbus landed in America while trying to find India. Columbus arrival in the Americas caused a massive decline in the population as they died from diseases brought by the Europeans.
The need for people to work on these lands created a demand for slaves from West Africa to offset the loss of the indigenous population in the Americas.
When the British ships arrived in the Bight of Benin in 1553, they were shocked to discover that the interaction between the Portuguese and the people of Benin was so advanced that the Oba of Benin spoke Portuguese. At that time Portugal and Spain were the leading slave trading nations but Britain would eventually surpass them when they began in 1663.
King Charles II granted a royal charter and monopoly on trade in Africa. Britain became the leading figure in a triangular 3 continent trade in which Europeans would buy people from Badagry Lagos, Elem Kalabari ( Old Calabar) Bonny and Calabar ( New Calabar) and send them to the Americas. Slavery became so common that the area was known as the Slave Coast.
What Britain Did To Nigeria by Max Siollun
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