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ID: 7016570
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016570
Record Type:
physical
Slave Coast (coastline)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 003 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 3.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located along Bight of Benin and between the Benin and Volta rivers; so-called because most Africans taken as slaves during 16th-18th centuries were taken from this region.
Names:
Slave Coast
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Slave Coast
(coastline) (
P
)
Place Types:
coastline (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Slave Coast..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
181
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1123
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
181
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1123
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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