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Britain Annexes Lagos
slavery
Africa
Nigeria
annexation
Britain backed the deposed and exiled Oba Akitoye and reinstalled him as sovereign in 1851. Britain annexed Lagos after a ten year period of military protection in its efforts to combat the African slave trade operating in the region.
British installation of the Oba Akitoye of Lagos. 1891, Cassell & Co. London
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