The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Copper bars were used as everyday currency in tiveland since the late eighteenth century. They were mass produced in factories in birmingham and imported through the port of old calibar, at the mouth of the cross river by slave traders based in liverpool and bristol. During the 17 sixties alone, perhaps a hundred thousand africans were shipped down the cross river to calabar and nearby ports where they were put in chains on british, french or other european ships. Part of perhaps a million and a half exported from the bite of piafra during the whole period of the atlantic slave trade.