The region near modern-day Benin and Togo was once such a centre of the trade and was known as the "Slave Coast." Most of the boat's occupants did not look to be in poor health and there was ...

Cotonou police said there were about 250 children on the ship, from Benin and neighboring Togo, though Douala police ... is very similar to slavery," Guluma told CNN, "because the children are ...

European merchants deported an estimated 1.5 million slaves from the Bight of Benin, a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo and part of modern-day Nigeria, said Ana Lucia Araujo, a ...

Captured far from the African coast when he was a boy of 11, Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery, later acquired ... the Ibo people in the kingdom of Benin, along the Niger River.

Although slavery is illegal everywhere ... in West and Central Africa." Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Togo are participating in the initiative.