March 28, 2013. A tourist visits the slave trade port in Bimbia, Cameroon. DOUALA, CAMEROON – Michael Hancock, the mayor of Denver, a city in the western United States, says he only recently discovered that his ancestors came from Cameroon. “Many of us don’t know where we came from,” Hancock says during an interview at the University of It has long been known that some African tribal chieftains and their underlings collaborated with the slave traders, who were chiefly English, French, Dutch and North American, but the assumption This route brought goods to the West African coast, slaves to the Americas, and raw materials to Europe. The Gold Coast, now present-day Ghana, got its name in the 15th century because of the gold and other valuable goods found in the area. Elmina Castle is the oldest building constructed by Europeans that is still in existence in sub-Saharan 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 Greater European presence at Central African slave ports such as Luanda stimulates the production of African ivory carvings marketed to Western visitors. Generally carved from the tapered end of the tusk, the most common type features a continuous, bordered frieze of figures that spirals around the perimeter of the tusk, ending at the tip with It is easily assumed, therefore, that the African slave trade pit brutal, gun-wielding European slaver traders against unsuspecting, passive African victims. where slave ports at Ouidah and CDdx3s9.

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