单词 | slave coast |
释义 | > as lemmasSlave Coast Slave Coast n. now historical a part of the west coast of Africa (see quot. 1875) from which enslaved people were exported. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [noun] > West Africa Slave Coast1778 white man's grave1836 The Land of the Shadow of Death1897 1702 D. Jones Hist. France II. 1229 As for what they have in Africa, there is first the Isle of Goeree, or L' Islette de St. Louis, near Cape Vert, which is on the Slave Coast. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 269 The Slave Coast extends from the river Volta to the Calabar river. 2019 Res. Afr. Lit. 50 12 The history of Lagos as a trade center and its situation on the slave coast lurk in the subtext of Okorafor's story of invasion from the sea. < as lemmas |
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