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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLAVE COAST

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Slave Coast is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SLAVE COAST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Slave Coast

Slave Coast

The Slave Coast is a historical name formerly used for parts of coastal West Africa along the Bight of Benin. The name is derived from the fact that it was a major source of African slaves during the Atlantic slave trade from the early 16th century to the 19th century. Other nearby coastal regions historically known by their prime colonial export are the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, and the Pepper Coast.

Definition of Slave Coast in the English dictionary

The definition of Slave Coast in the dictionary is the coast of W Africa between the Volta River and Mount Cameroon, chiefly along the Bight of Benin: the main source of African slaves.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLAVE COAST

Slav
slave
slave ant
slave cylinder
slave driver
slave labour
Slave River
slave ship
Slave State

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLAVE COAST

Barbary Coast
boast
Caird Coast
coast
Coromandel Coast
French toast
Gold Coast
Ivory Coast
Malabar Coast
Murman Coast
Murmansk Coast
pot roast
pot-roast
rib roast
roast
seacoast
the Barbary Coast
the Ivory Coast
toast
Trucial Coast

Synonyms and antonyms of Slave Coast in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Slave Coast» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

奴隶海岸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Costa de los Esclavos
570 millions of speakers

English

Slave Coast
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दास कोस्ट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ساحل العبيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Ведомый побережье
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

slave Coast
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্লেভ কোস্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Côte des Esclaves
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pantai Slave
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sklavenküste
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

奴隷海岸
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노예 해안
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Slave Coast
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nô lệ Coast
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடிமை கோடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्लेव्ह कोस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Köle kıyısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Costa degli Schiavi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewolnik Wybrzeże
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ведений узбережжі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Slave Coast
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Slave Ακτή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slaaf Coast
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Slavkusten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slave Coast
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Slave Coast

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLAVE COAST»

The term «Slave Coast» is used very little and occupies the 154.471 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLAVE COAST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Slave Coast

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLAVE COAST»

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The slave coast of West Africa 1550-1750: the impact of the ...
This book studies the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the "Slave Coast" of West Africa, an area covering modern south-eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and south-western Nigeria.
Robin Law, 1991
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Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave ...
Paper Edition. This book focuses on the history of the Anlo-Eve of southeastern Ghana over three centuries.
Sandra E. Greene, 1996
3
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West ...
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) With An Appendix Containing A Comparison Of The Tshi, Ga, Ewe, And Yoruba Languages.
Alfred Burton Ellis, 2011
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Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
A. B. Ellis, 2008
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The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery
est Africa's Slave Coast acquired its no- torious name from Europeans trading in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Derived from one of the area's primary commodities, this name distinguished the re- gion from other ...
Junius P. Rodriguez, 1997
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Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: ...
Alfred B. Ellis. Egba. Their inhabitants are Egbados, or Southern Egbas (Egba- odo, Egbas of the coast). The inhabitants of all these states speak one language, the, Yoruba. They are called Nagos by the French, and by the English are named  ...
Alfred B. Ellis, 1974
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The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas: A Comparative ...
The Setting Little Popo (modern Aného, in Togo) was situated on the western part of the so- called Slave Coast of West Africa. The Slave Coast, which from the seventeenth century was a major supplier of slaves for the Atlantic trade, extended ...
Ulrike Schmieder, Katja Füllberg-Stolberg, Michael Zeuske, 2011
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The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815
[had] become a slave coast."4 The coastal regions of present-day Togo, Benin, and the region of western Nigeria had acquired the name Slave Coast. It is a narrow corridor of savannah territory that reaches all the way to the coast, which may ...
Johannes Postma, 2008
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West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological ...
Akin- jogbin (1967) had as his thesis the view that Dahomey conquered the ' Slave Coast' in an effort to suppress the slave trade. Subsequent authors ( especially Law 1977, 1986; Henige and Johnson 1976; Ross 1983) have disagreed, and ...
Christopher R. DeCorse, 2001
10
Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'port', ...
Examples are, within the Slave Coast, studies of two coastal communities west of Ouidah, the Gen kingdom (w hich included the port of Little Popo, modern Aného) by Nicoué Gayibor, and the Anlo confederacy (including the port of Keta) by ...
Robin Law, 2004

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLAVE COAST»

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Poorly preserved DNA from African slaves reveals their origins
UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1880: Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast). Wood engraving c1880 (Photo by ... «University of Copenhagen News Site, Mar 15»
2
Author and Musician Ned Sublette on "The American Slave Coast"
Ned Sublette says his next book The American Slave Coast grew out of his ... He says a chapter about the slave trade in his book The World that Made New ... «WMUK, Nov 13»
3
Memories of Slave Trade At Heritage Museum
Africa history will not be complete without the Badagry Slave Coast where the transatlantic slave trade was predominant. Badagry served as a depot for the ... «AllAfrica.com, Mar 13»
4
Where In Africa Did Slaves Come From?
A large number of slaves came from the so-called Gold Coast (or sometimes known as the “Slave Coast” (which ultimately became the contemporary nation of ... «International Business Times, May 11»
5
How Much Ivory is in the Ivory Coast?
Months of armed conflict in the Ivory Coast may soon come to a close, ... When the slave trade grew, areas to the east were known as the "slave coast.". «Slate Magazine, Apr 11»

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