Badagry slave trade museums. 1. Williams Abass Slave Museum. Our first stop was Seriki Faremi Williams Abass Slave Museum, a “Brazilian Baracoon.”. Built in the 1840’s, this was, essentially, a warehouse for storing slaves. Single-story, it is made up of 40 rooms built around an open interior space with a well, still in use. May 15, 2014. The U.S. Coast Survey map calculated the number of slaves in each county in the United States in 1860. Library of Congress. In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a Because of the westward bulge in west Africa, this Mandinka region lies comparatively close to the Caribbean and the U.S. Situated on the westernmost point of Africa, Goreé Island became a major port of embarkation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. US President Barack Obama confronted a dark chapter in America’s past yesterday as he began a weeklong trip to Africa with a visit to an infamous slave port off the Senegalese coast. By Mike century, the town opened up to the new world and later became a strategic slave port in West Africa. Though slaves were also procured from other coasts, Whydah and Badagry accounted for a large number of slave exports. It is reported that for every thousand slaves taken out of Africa, 40 % usually were from Whydah and about 35 % from Badagry. Sometime in 1619, a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a hull filled with human cargo: captive Africans from Angola, in southwestern Africa A 17th-century map by the Dutch cartographer Jan Janssonius showing the Barbary Coast, here "Barbaria". The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery or Berber Coast) was the name given to the coastal regions of central and western North Africa or more specifically the Maghreb, specifically the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Prior to statehood, there were 41,000 enslaved African-Americans in the Province of North Carolina in 1767. By 1860, the number of slaves in the state of KoZoaR.