Old Calabar

E940520

former slave-trading port historic town

Old Calabar is a historic coastal town in southeastern Nigeria that was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade and later an important colonial administrative hub.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Old Calabar area	3
Old Calabar trading center	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former slave-trading port ⓘ historic town ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup	Efik people NERFINISHED ⓘ Efut people NERFINISHED ⓘ Qua people NERFINISHED ⓘ
colonialPower	United Kingdom ⓘ
country	Nigeria ⓘ
exported	enslaved Africans ⓘ ivory ⓘ palm oil ⓘ
governedBy	Efik chiefs NERFINISHED ⓘ Obong of Calabar NERFINISHED ⓘ
hadColonialInstitution	British consulate NERFINISHED ⓘ colonial court ⓘ mission stations ⓘ
historicalNameOf	Calabar NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalRole	gateway between hinterland and Atlantic trade ⓘ
imported	European manufactured goods ⓘ firearms ⓘ spirits ⓘ
introducedReligion	Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	canoe-based river trade ⓘ colonial architecture ⓘ historic waterfront ⓘ slave trading houses ⓘ
locatedIn	Cross River region NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOn	Atlantic coast ⓘ Cross River estuary NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorLanguage	Efik language NERFINISHED ⓘ English language ⓘ
missionaryActivityBy	Church of Scotland Mission NERFINISHED ⓘ Presbyterian missionaries ⓘ
modernAdministrativeRegion	Cross River State NERFINISHED ⓘ
modernSuccessor	Calabar city NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Niger Delta region NERFINISHED ⓘ
peakSlaveTradePeriod	18th century ⓘ early 19th century ⓘ
timePeriodOfProminence	17th century ⓘ 18th century ⓘ 19th century ⓘ
tradePartners	British merchants ⓘ Dutch merchants ⓘ Portuguese merchants ⓘ
traditionalReligion	Efik traditional religion NERFINISHED ⓘ
was	important British colonial administrative hub ⓘ
wasMajorCenterOf	palm oil trade ⓘ slave export to the Americas ⓘ transatlantic slave trade ⓘ
wasPartOf	Niger Coast Protectorate NERFINISHED ⓘ Oil Rivers Protectorate NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Nigeria Protectorate NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Duke Town → alsoKnownAs → Old Calabar ⓘ

Obong of Calabar → associatedKingdom → Old Calabar ⓘ

Duke → associatedWith → Old Calabar ⓘ

Eyamba → associatedWithRegion → Old Calabar ⓘ

Cobham → ethnicRegion → Old Calabar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Calabar area

Eyamba → historicalAssociation → Old Calabar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Calabar trading center

Henshaw → historicalRegion → Old Calabar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Calabar area

Creek Town → partOf → Old Calabar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Calabar area

Henshaw Town → partOf → Old Calabar ⓘ