Slave Coast

American  

noun

1. the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.

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Slave Coast British  

noun

1. the coast of W Africa between the Volta River and Mount Cameroon, chiefly along the Bight of Benin: the main source of African slaves (16th–19th centuries)

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Example Sentences

Benin's coastline is part of what was once known as the Slave Coast - a major departure point for enslaved Africans shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

From BBC

He even shares a story of returning to Africa with his mother to trace his roots to the Slave Coast in Ghana.

From Salon

Shrines to the ocean deity line the historic slave coast of western Africa, from Senegal to Ghana to Angola, said Andrew Apter, interim director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA.

From Washington Post

The West African region once was known as the Slave Coast because of the large number of slaves taken from there over centuries.

From Fox News

Of course they did, and the Welsh, and the Vikings, while the Africans from the west coast—what in later days they called the slave coast or the ivory coast—they were trading with South America, and the Chinese visited Oregon a couple of times: they called it Fu Sang.

From Literature