Article: Ouidah; the social history of a West African slaving 'port', 1727-1892.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Ouidah: The Social History of a West African ...
The Historian;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving "Port," 1727-1892. By Robin Law. (Athens ... variety of topics. Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'Port,' 1727-1892 is an urban history of a ...

Article: Ouidah: The Social History of a West African ...
African Studies Review;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving "Port," 1727-1892. Athens ... of his works on precolonial West African history, is a splendid study ... discusses two other coastal West African ports-Elmina and Lagos-to ...

Article: life in an African slaving centre was not a black ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ...In 1998 Bill Clinton visited Goree Island in Senegal, one of the main embarkation points for the slave trade in the 18th century. After a heartfelt speech about the evils of slavery, he declared that the United States would now seek a 'new partnership' with Africa, 'based on friendship and

Article: The Nefarious Trade: Britain's first Anti-Slavery Act was ...
History Today;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Royal Navy sent vessels to intercept slave traders off the West African coast, but these ships were mostly old and not suitable ... offloaded. The vessel could then immediately set sail for the African slaving ports, under a flag of convenience--that is of a nation ...

Article: The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of a Slave Trader.
African Business;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Epicentre of slave trade Whydah was an epicentre of Africa's slave trade. It had exported more slaves than all other West African slaving ports combined, and its king was believed to receive the value of at least 20 slaves from each European ship that ...

Article: Stephanie E. Smallwood. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from ...
African American Review;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... traders and owners rather than their captives'. Even when historians seek the captives' perspective, the source material is challenging. Robin Law, author of Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving "Port," 1727-1892,

Article: Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery
The International Journal of African Historical Studies;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... abolitionist colonial projector, Smeathman argued for a West African colony settled by freed slaves and founded on "rational ... slavery, perhaps bolstered by his polygamous marriages into African slaving families). A fascinating subsequent chapter looks at Swedenborgian ...