What You Need To Know About The Brazilian Barracoon, Badagry, Nigeria And The Slave Trade

The Brazilian Barracoon was built in the 1840s and held up to 40 slaves at a time in Badagry, present-day Lagos State, Nigeria. Badagry is majorly recognised for its slave trade by the Europeans.

The trade began in 1440 with Prince Henry, the navigator of Portugal. By 1593, 12,000 slaves had been sold to labour markets in Italy and Spain.

The barracoons were small rooms where up to 40 slaves were kept, all in an upright position for days before they were shipped across the lagoon via the ”point of no return” into the waiting ships.

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These groups of houses, now mostly residential, were all at one point or the other used to keep slaves waiting to be transported. Slaves were then exchanged for merchandise as little as whisky, tobacco, rum, glass, canons, iron bars, brass, woollen, cotton, linen, silk, bead etc.

Historically speaking, Badagry was the first and last port of call. When the ships arrive to pick these slaves, they would be brought out from the hole in which they were put and taken to a place called ‘The Point of No Return’.

This process involved the crossing of slaves through the ocean that links the Badagry port to this point. When the slaves have been crossed over, they would walk about 20 miles to the point. Only the strong ones make it to the New World and maybe luckily, back