Research
Some Water Masses Activities within the Gurnee and Asian Gulfs: The Situation of Slavery and Slave Trade and Sea Piracy From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
The History of Slavery and Slave Trade and Piracy are known to be activities that took place within water-masses and in to the close hinterlands. These two historical activities have made human kind to be continuously leaving in precaution avoiding surprise attacks, hijacking and trafficking of all sorts. Our main objective here will be to prove their existences, the thread to human kind, their manifestations, some efforts raised to fight against and the results of these important historical issues. It should be noted that all cooperations or links existed between these two studies thus these aspects were general issues that touch all the water bodies such as the Atlantic sea and Ocean in The Gulf of Gurnea. It should be noted that to best develop and enhance these studies our research has been concentrated mainly and specifically on some methods or historical sources such as documentations, Internet Sources and others. It is with these that we shall be able to come out with some statistics, tables, maps that will show prove that the above two phenomenon has been chaotic and demand retracement and redressing for continuous and further global fight.
Conflicts and Resolutions on Religions Differences as Means of Acquiring Slaves in the African Gulf of Guinea during the Slave Trade Period: The Case of Nigeria and Cameroon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Within the Gulf of Guinea yesterday and today we could find out that the existed and still in existence many kinds of Religions, these varieties of believes at first was a threat to one another each conflicting or fighting for supremacy and hegemony. Some of these religions that pose a threat to one another (humanity) were Christianity and Paganism (traditional belief), Muslims and Paganism, paganism versus paganism, Islam for the Muslim and Christian for Christianity. But with the passing of time other noted religion or faith has developed and grown to a wider dimension and their existences are also widely acknowledged like others. The aforementioned religions that surfaced in the community of Nigeria and Dahomey (Benin Republic) and Cameroon, it is generally noted that they all open ways for slaves ushered during the transatlantic slave trade transaction and in the aftermath eras. Furthermore, due to conflictual views, hence paving the way for the growth and increased in slaves’ captivity of some Africans found around the Gulf of Guinea. Amongst several mentions is the most notable Yoruba religion that evoked our Centre of focus and concentration is the Orisha religion. It should also be noted that these above mention religions at one time and another in conflicts brought some Resolutions as consequences in the entire regions of Nigeria and Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea.
