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Ouidah

The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892

Autor: Robin Law

Język:

Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: James Currey

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Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial c...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Robin Law

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2004

strony

320

EAN

9780852554975

ISBN

0852554974

Enbook ID

04456925

Wydawca

James Currey

Waga

534

Wymiary

157 x 233 x 25

Pełny opis

Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region, and the second most important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the export of slaves for the trans- Atlantic 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'. Exporting over a million slaves, it was second only to Luanda in Angola for the embarkation of slaves in the whole of Africa. This is the first detailed study of the town's history, and its role in the Atlantic slave trade. Its central concerns are the organization of the African end of the slave trade, and the impact participation in the trade had on the historical development of the African societies involved. It shifts the focus from the viewpoint of the Dahomian monarchy, represented in previous studies, to the coast. Here is a well documented case study of pre-colonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time.