Slavery in Nigeria

The traditional slave trade in Southern Nigeria preceded the arrival of European influence,[1] and continued locally long after the effective abolition of slavery in many other countries.[2]

With the arrival of the transatlantic slave trade, traditional slave traders in southeastern Nigeria became suppliers of slaves to European slave traders.[1] Although local slavery was officially prohibited by the colonial British administration from the mid-1880s,[3] they tacitly permitted it to continue well into the 1930s,[4] ending completely only in the 1940s.[2]

In 1961, the newly independent First Nigerian Republic ratified the 1926 Slavery Convention.

As of 2020, descendents of slaves still face discrimination in southeastern Nigeria.[5] Local campaigners against discrimination have aligned themselves with the global Black Lives Matter movement, comparing the treatment of slave descendents in Nigeria with the treatment of Black people in the United States.[6]

References
  1. Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia (2020-07-19). "'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves'". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  2. Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia (July 15, 2018). "My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  3. Afigbo, A. E. (Adiele Eberechukwu) (2006). The abolition of the slave trade in southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-668-4. OCLC 256735611.
  4. Northrup, David (September 2007). "A. E. Afigbo. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria. 1885-1950. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. xv + 210 pp. Maps. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth". African Studies Review. 50 (2): 228–229. doi:10.1353/arw.2007.0116. ISSN 0002-0206.
  5. Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia (July 11, 2019). "The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  6. "Nigeria's Slave Descendants Hope Race Protests Help End Discrimination". www.voanews.com. June 29, 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-19.


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