Transatlantic Slave Trade in Igbo Land

About 1.5 million Igbo slaves were shipped across the Atlantic Oceanbetween the 15th and 19th Centuries – to what was then called the NewWorld – the Americans – through the Calabar port, in the Bight of Bonny,making it one of the largest points of exit during the transatlantic trade The Aro Confederacy, an Igbo trading […]