SLAVE See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

COAST  . The name given to that See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa extending from the See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• VOLTA
• VOLTA, ALESSANDRO (1745-1827)

Volta to the See also:

• NIGER
• NIGER, GAIUS PESCENNIUS

Niger See also:

• DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

delta; forming part of the See also:

• GUINEA

Guinea coast (see GUINEA) . From the beginning of the 16th to the end of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century this region was a See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal resort of the Europeans engaged in the slave See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . Politically the Slave Coast is divided between See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section forming part of See also:

• TOGOLAND

Togoland (q.v.), the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French section the seaboard of See also:

• DAHOMEY (Fr. Dahome)

Dahomey (q.v.), and the See also:

• BRITISH

British section the See also:

• LAGOS

Lagos See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• NIGERIA

Nigeria (see LAGOS) .