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Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892 (Western African Studies)
Robin Law
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Paperback. Ouidah, an African town in the Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region. This is a history of its role in the slave trade. It examines the organization of the African end of the slave trade, and the impact participation in the trade had on the societies involved. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462. The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892. 320 pages, 5 maps, 5 tables. Ouidah, an African town in the Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region. This is a history of its role in the slave trade. It examines the organization of the African end of the slave trade, and the impact participation in the trade had on the societies involved. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1HFDB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight: 506.
Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade. 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 ... Read more
Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
James Currey
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780852554975
SKU
V9780852554975
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About Robin Law
Robin Law is Professor of African History at the University of Stirling.
Reviews for Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892 (Western African Studies)
This work is a masterful chronological history of a community, especially the history of its merchant families. Although grounded in archival research, the book's collection of oral traditions from descendants of the Ouidah merchants makes this study of an urban community unique. Especially important is the history of the Brazilians among them, because many of these merchants were ex-slaves themselves ... Read more