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Diaspora demographics

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Mapping Igbo Destinations in the Americas: A Comparative Analysis

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, people from the Igbo-speaking regions of southeastern Nigeria were dispersed across the Atlantic through the transatlantic slave trade. During this period, the Bight of Biafra became one of the most active slaving coasts in West Africa, and enslaved Igbo formed one of the largest identifiable African ethnic…