Great Britain declares Lagos (Nigeria) to be a Crown colony

In order to prevent other European powers from gaining access to the Nigerian slave trade, Great Britain declares the port area of Lagos to be a Crown colony. (By Brian Bockelman)

 

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Peter Stearns, ed., The Encyclopedia of World History (New York:  Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001), 591.
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