In the 18th and 19th centuries, Badagri and Ouidah were major ports on this bay.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Badagri and Ouidah were major ports on this bay. Between 1711 and 1810, about one million people, mostly from the Yoruba ethnic group, were captured and sold as slaves, which gave the area the name "Slave Coast." Today, major ports are Accra, Lome, Porto-Noveo, and Lagos. FTP, name this 450 mile long West African bay, which forms the western part of the Gulf of Guinea and extends from the mouth of the Volta to the mouth of the Niger River.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Badagri and Ouidah were major ports on this bay.
{Bight of Benin}