The Slave Trade of the Igbo People

During the Atlantic slave trade, 7 million Africans coming from the Bayrahra Bay were enslaved and brought to the New World. Of the 7 million people, nearly 3 million people are Ibo. From the 16th to the 19th century, European and American slave merchants abducted many Africans and enslaved themselves to the new world, but with the influx of Africans, Africans were subjected to many great cultural influences It was. There are two major trade ports, Bonnie and Carabaru, arriving in Jamaica.

Ibocom in the Atlantic slave trade has become one of the major ethnic groups enslaved in the late 16th and 19th centuries. Biafurabay (aka Bonney Bay) is located near the native Ibo area, and is a major district of warts. Bight's main slave trade port is in Bonny and Calabar; these slaves are heavy Ipo. A slave who was kidnapped or purchased from an Igbo boss was taken to Europe and the United States by a slave merchant in Europe. An estimated 14.6% of slaves were acquired from Viafla Bay between 1650 and 1900. This is the third largest proportion of the slave trade era crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

The relationship between Europe and wart began with the arrival of Portuguese in the mid-15th century. Initially, the Europeans were limited to slave trade on the coast of Niger. At this point, the main products of Ibo are slaves, many of which are sent to the New World. After slave trade was abolished in 1807, companies in the UK overtook coastal areas and actively dominated the inland areas. The Southern Nigeria Reserve was founded in 1900, including Ibarol. Until 1960, Nigeria was still a British colony and Ivo was an Englishman. On 1 October 1960, Nigeria became an independent nation consisting of a national federation.

In the massive expansion of the Atlantic crossing trade since the middle of the 17th century, Nigeria maintained an important position in slave trade. In the 18th century, slaves from the coast of Nigeria were slightly more than slaves from Angola, and in the 19th century, 30% of all slaves sent to the Atlantic come from Nigeria. Throughout the trade period, the number of slaves shipped from Nigeria to America exceeded 3.5 million. Most of these slaves are Ibo and Yoruba, Hausa, Ibibio and other ethnic groups are concentrated. In the 18th century, the two powers - the Oyo and the Alliance - were responsible for most of the slaves exported from Nigeria. The Allo Federal continued exporting slaves in the 1930s, but most of the slaves of the 19th century were products of the Yoruba civil war after the collapse of Oyo of the 1920s.