Slave Coast

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noun

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

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How to use Slave Coast in a sentence

Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad.
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This approach would greatly limit his appeal beyond the Northeast and the west coast.
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By giving an artistic veto to a madman, we submit to the mindset of a slave.
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There are still large tracts of the island, particularly on the north coast, that are undeveloped.
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So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.
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Two Battalions racing due North along the coast and foothills with levelled bayonets.
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Every day they are gaining more strength, as is seen by the presence of so many of them on this coast.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
New France has an exceedingly varied sea-coast, indented by bays and rivers, broken and irregular.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
A traveler coming, wet and cold, into a country ale-house on the coast of Kent, found the fire completely blockaded.
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Gallinas, the noted slave factory on the west of Africa, purchased by the Liberian republic.
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British Dictionary definitions for Slave Coast

Slave Coast

noun

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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