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Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727–1892 (Western African Studies)

By Robin Law

Book information

Publisher
Ohio University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0821415727, 9780821415726
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2454289 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
320\0
Time added
2024-01-03 10:29:37

Description

Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the Slave Coast. This is the first detailed study of the town’s history and of its role in the Atlantic slave trade.Ouidah is a well-documented case study of precolonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular of the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time.

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