The principal commodities of legitimate trade are…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
Although this trade has grown to significant proportions—palm oil exports alone are worth twenty-one million pounds a year by 1840—it is concentrated near the coast, where palm trees grow in abundance.
Gradually, however, the trade forces major economic and social changes in the interior, although it failsto undermine slavery and the slave trade.
Quite the contrary, the incidence of slavery in local societies actually increases.
Locations
Groups
Igbo people
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Hausa Kingdoms, the
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Hausa people
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Yoruba people
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Ijaw people
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Kano (Hausa city state)
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Zaria (Zazzau), Hausa City-State of
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Katsina (Hausa city state)
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Gobir (Hausa city state)
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Benin Empire
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Ibibio people
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Bonny, Ijo city-state of
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Oyo Empire
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Calabar, Efik state of
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Dahomey, Kingdom of
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Khasso, Fulani Jihad State
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Aro Confederacy
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Fouta Djallon (Futa Jallon) Fulani Jihad State
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Fouta-Toro, or Futa Toro, Fulani Jihad State of
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Elem, Ijo city-state of
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Equatorial Guinea, Spanish colony of
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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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Fulani Empire
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Nupe, Emirate of the
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Freetown (Sierra Leone), British Crown Colony of
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Sokoto, Kingdom of
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Macina (Masina), Fulani Jihad State of
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Spain, Bourbon Kingdom (first restoration) of
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Denmark, Kingdom of
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France, constitutional monarchy of
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Zaria, Emirate of
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Oyo, Yoruba Kingdom of
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