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 • Jul. 24, 2025

They opted instead to exercise strict royal control over the Slave Coast trade.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

By 1737, Agaja had conquered the entire Slave Coast and brought it under Dahomey’s control.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Other forts and markets soon sprouted along the West African coast, and Europeans began calling its different stretches by their major exports: the Grain Coast, the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, the Slave Coast.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

They tell of the great herds of the Fulani, who peddle their hides even upon the Slave Coast, whence my mother was dispatched.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson