Slave Coast - Doreikaigan (English spelling) Slave Coast

Japanese: 奴隷海岸 - どれいかいがん(英語表記)Slave Coast
Slave Coast - Doreikaigan (English spelling) Slave Coast

The coastal region facing the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. It stretches from the Niger River Delta in present-day Nigeria in the east, through Benin, and reaches the border between Togo and Ghana in the west. During the slave trade that took place from the 15th to the 19th centuries, this coast was the most active area for slave trading, and Europeans came to call it the "Slave Coast." Large numbers of black slaves were shipped from coastal ports such as Porto Novo to the Americas.

[Takehiko Haraguchi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

西アフリカのギニア湾に臨む海岸地域。東は今日のナイジェリアのニジェール川デルタ地帯から、ベナンを経て、西はトーゴとガーナの国境付近に至る。15世紀から19世紀にかけて行われた奴隷貿易において、この付近の海岸は奴隷の取引がもっとも盛んな所であったことから、ヨーロッパ人たちはこの海岸を「奴隷海岸」とよぶようになった。ポルト・ノボなど沿岸の港から、大量の黒人奴隷がアメリカ大陸へ向けて積み出された。

[原口武彦]

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