From A history of the colonization of Africa by Alien Races Sir Johnson (1899)
"Negro Slaves were taken into Egypt as servants. A few may have reached Rome, but the determined exploitation of the black races did not begin until the Mohammedan conquest of Africa. The Arabs had swept across Nothern Africa and began directly acquainted with Sudan.""So the slave trade developed mightily in the Mohammedan world."
"Household slaves were imported into North Africa, Arabia, Turkey and Persia from Sudan, while the Sultan of Morocco imported slaves from NIGERIA. Arabia, Persia, and India obtained slaves from Egyptian Sudan, Abyssinia, and the Zanzibar coast."
"Into the west coast slaves were imported to be guards of palaces and the fighting seamen of navies."
Where did the British, Spanish and Portuguese get slaves from?
"At first the slaves came chiefly from the Gambia and other rivers southward to Sierra Leone, also from the Congo and the Portuguese possessions of Angola and the Zambezi, but as the demand grew they were taken from the Bights of Biafra and Benin, which is known as Niger Delta today."
"The Portuguese first came to Old Calabar River and Delta State after a falling out with the Oba of Benin in the 17th and 18th Century. The rivers were known as OIL RIVERS because they produced the best quality palm oil. Later on in 1840 Niger Delta was so important the British appointed a council."
"The Oil Rivers Protectorate was drawn up in 1887 and its boundaries were the River Benue and to the shores of Lake Chad by the British and German".
The Igbos Fought for their oil and land
"Ja-ja, a slave from Ibo Country, who was a trader servant and counselor to the chiefs. He had risen to such a position of wealth and influence that he had armed a large force of fighting men and a flotilla of war canoes and made himself the most powerful chief in Niger Delta".
"As Ja-ja went to great lengths to oppose the trade between the British and the natives, he was then taken to the Gold Coast to be tried before a commissioner. As a result of the trial, he was deported and sentenced to five years banishment in the West Indies. He did not live to return to his country".
How the King of Lagos was a slave trader
"The colony of Lagos came into existence in 1863 It was afterward added to the Government of The West African Settlements. In the days of the Early Portuguese Lagos was partly under the influence of Dahome, partly under the rule of Benin, and the Portuguese and British came there to buy slaves."
"The British Government came into contact with the King (Oba) of Lagos Kosoko who had become of the truculent slave traders on the coast"
"In 1851 the Oba and his cousin were placed on the throne after having made a treaty with the British to end the slave trade, but neither the Oba or his cousin kept his promise. In 1861, The Oba gave Lagos to the British for a £1000 a year pension which he drew for 24 more years until his death".
