The Bight of Benin, or Bay of Benin, is a bight in the Gulf of Guinea on the coast of western Africa. It was historically known as the Slave Coast, as it was used extensively for slave trading, which expanded significantly with European colonization and the European slave trade.
In London Labour and the London Poor edition:
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London Considered as a Great World. (The Great World of London): "Nor are the religious creeds of the entire globe more multiform than those of the Great Metropolis. We smile with pity at the tribes of the Bight of Benim, who have a lizard for their particular divinity; and throw up our hands and brows in astonishment on learning that the Bissagos offer up their prayers to a barn-door cock. But have we not among us, in this "most enlightened Metropolis," and in these most "enlightened times," people who devoutly believe that Mrs. Joanna Southcott was designed to have been the mother of the Messiah?"