Migrations: Emigration from Africa - Ports of Departure

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Angola

• 1484 - Mpinda
• Ambriz
• Loanga
• 1576 - São Paulo de Luanda
• 1587 - Benguela

Benin

• Agoue
• Jakin
• Porto Novo
• 1580 - Ouidah

Ghana

• 1482 - Elmina (the first European settlement in West Africa, by the Portuguese)

Guinea-Bissau

• 1588 - Cacheu Gambia
• 1651 - Juffureh - Fort James
• 1681 - Albreda

Mauritania

• Bay of Arguin (first slave market)

Mozambique

• 1505 - Sofala
• 1507 - Island of Mozambique
• 1602 - Ibo

Nigeria

• 1472 - Lagos
• Badagry
• Bonny
• Brass
• Calabar (85% Bristol and Liverpool merchants)

Senegal

• 1659 - Saint-Louis-du-Fort

Togo

• Little Popo
• Grand-Popo

references, links and resources

• The African Slave Trade in Two Minutes