Evidence adduced above on trade itineraries between Brazil and the Bight of Benin indicated that Osifekunde was originally shipped to northeast Brazil. He might have been transported on either of two vessels: the first is the Boa Hora (voyage number 46781), belonging to Joaquim Jose de Oliveira. The ship left Bahia for an undisclosed port in the Bight of Benin on March 8, 1820 where it embarked 390 enslaved people and landed 353 in Bahia. The other vessel is the Americana (voyage number 900053),  
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[^0]:    13 William Griffith to Ussher, December 24, 1880, CSO 1/1/8, National Archives, Ibadan. For details, see Ojo, 2010b, "The recruitment and marketing of slaves in Ijebu, c.1505-1892" in Themes in the History of the Ijebu and Remo of Western Nigeria, ed., Oladipo Olubomehin, Ibadan, Bamon Publishing Company, pp. 1-22 and Ojo, 2020c, "Slavery and the slave trade in Ikale, Yorubaland': A rejoinder," Lagos Historical Review 10, pp. 120-44.
14 Davezac, Notice, 22 and Lloyd, "Osifekunde," p. 237.
15 Richard Lander, 1830, reprint London, Frank Cass, 1966, Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa, II, pp. 238-40 and Pierre Verger, 1976, Trade Relations Between the Bight of Benin and Babia Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century, Ibadan University Press, pp. 374-76.  
belonging to Vicente Moreira Ribeiro and Pedro Gomes Brandão. The ship, like the Hora, sailed from Bahia to the Bight of Benin on June 22, 1820, where it boarded 239 Africans and landed 217 in Bahia. The speed between Osifekunde's capture and embarkation showed either ship would have been in the Niger Delta for a couple of days, if not weeks, pending the sale. In Bahia, Osifekunde was among the first batch in the huge wave of Yoruba-speaking people landed there in the early nineteenth century. The movement of these people had begun in the aftermath of the uprising at Ilorin and the outbreak of the wars in Yorubaland in 1817.