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Calabar

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Calabar

Port and capital of Cross River State, southeast Nigeria, on the Calabar River (a tributary of the Cross River), 64 km/40 mi from the Atlantic Ocean; population (1992) 157,800. Rubber, timber, vegetable oils, and cement are exported. It was a centre of the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Formerly known as Old Calabar, it became a pioneer centre of the palm oil trade and an important missionary and administrative centre during the late 19th century. Its trading position declined with the growth of the harbour at Port Harcourt, but it retains its position as state capital. Calabar University is here.
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Unlike Peters from Calabar who died after 2 days, screaming: "They stole everything
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There are the two princes of Calabar, scions of the slave-trading elite, captured by English slavers in 1767, who were sold to Dominica, moved from there to Virginia, and finally won their freedom in England whence they returned to Old Calabar.
To study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World by Putnam, Lara / Journal of Social History
With the increasing demand for slaves, the Aro became the main slave dealers of the interior, exchanging slaves for imported commodities with coastal communities including Calabar, Bonny, and later Opobo (Dike and Ekejiuba 1990:118-23).
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