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Ouidah : the social history of a West African slaving 'port', 1727-1892 / Robin Law.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Law, Robin.
- Series:
- Western African studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--Benin--Ouidah--History.
- Slave trade.
- History.
- Ouidah (Benin)--History.
- Ouidah (Benin).
- Benin--History--To 1894.
- Benin.
- Ouidah (Benin)--Commerce--History.
- Benin--Ouidah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist -- 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.
- Contents:
- Origins: Ouidah before the Dahomian conquest
- The Dahomian conquest of Ouidah
- Dahomian Ouidah
- The operation of the Atlantic slave trade
- De Souza's Ouidah: the era of the illegal slave trade 1815-39
- The era of transition: from slaves to palm oil 1840-57
- Dissention & decline: Ouidah under King Glele 1858-77
- From Dahomian to French rule 1878-92.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Law, Robin. Ouidah.
- ISBN:
- 9780821445525
- 0821445529
- Publisher Number:
- 99988451193
- 9780821415726
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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