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Bight of Benin

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Noun1.Bight of Benin - a broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa
Gulf of Guinea - a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa


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Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil (London, 2001).
To study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World by Putnam, Lara / Journal of Social History
Under Dutch rule, and in addition to seasoned African imports from Curacao in the West Indies, imports into New Amsterdam between 1639 and 1664 derived from an array of ports along the West African coast below the Bight of Benin near present-day Nigeria.
Positioning and imaging Caesar: from margin to center in the ... by Williams-Myers, A.J. / Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
Everyone knew that West Africa was the white man's grave ("Beware and take heed of the Bight of Benin, for few come out although many go in", went the ditty).
Kenya: a tarnished jewel by Hempstone, Smith / The National Interest
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