Nigeria’s Slave Trade; Account Of A Descendant Of A Slave Trader

The Atlantic slave trade saw at least 10 million Africans taken against their will to the Americas to be enslaved. Many people now need ancestral dna checks/results to verify where they have been taken from.

In this video, Dami, who is a tour guide and a descendant of one of the main slave merchants in Badagry, a coastal town by the Atlantic Ocean was used as a departure point for an estimated 6 million of these enslaved Africans. Hence it is called the point of no return.

It is also known as Gberefu island, point of no return.

Nigeria was known as the slave coast for this reason, a whole lot of Africans were taken from here. It is also the reason why most Africans in diaspora can trace roots back to Nigeria.

We must now as a people, learn lessons, and apply those lessons, to ensure that slavery in any shape or form is not allowed to exist.

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