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Slavery, Remembrance, and Sites of Historical Memory

The Case of Badagry

EDMUND ABAKA and GEORGE XORSE KUMASENU
African Economic History, January 2021, 49 (1) 104-126; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.49.1.104
EDMUND ABAKA
Edmund Abaka (), Associate Professor of History and International Studies, University of Miami
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GEORGE XORSE KUMASENU
George Xorse Kumasenu (), graduate student, University of Cape Coast.
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Badagry, a lagoonside city in Lagos State, Nigeria, is of tremendous historical significance due to its long history of slave trading, which dates from the early sixteenth century and reached a peak in the 1720s. The city attracted prominent local and Portuguese slave merchants such as Felix de Souza, Domingo Martinez, and Ferman Gomez as pioneer slave merchants in the city. This paper argues that the trade in enslaved persons was a significant factor in the rise of Badagry as a prominent lagoonside city on the coast of West Africa. Today, Badagry is an important historical city because of its trans-Atlantic connections and sites of historical memory that vividly capture, preserve, and tell the story and experiences of the enslaved as essential dimensions of African, African diaspora, and world history. The barracoons, the Vlekete slave market that was, and still is, beside the shrine of the chief priest (Aplogan) of Badagry, the heritage museum, and the “point of no return” at Gberefu beach, constitute some of the remarkable sites of historical memory that still dot the city of Badagry.

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