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A dynastic quarrel inside one Lagos family, a British bombardment in December 1851 justified by the slave trade, and the cession of 1861 that made Lagos a British colony and began the conquest of Nigeria.
The island town with three overlapping origins, its Àwórì land-owning chiefs, its Benin-derived kingship, the 1851 bombardment and 1861 cession, and the Brazilian quarter the returnees built.