Ouidah. Robin Law

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       Lineages of State Fragility

      Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau

      JOSHUA B. FORREST

       Willing Migrants

      Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848–1960

      FRANÇOIS MANCHUELLE

       El Dorado in West Africa

      The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor & Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875–1900

      RAYMOND E. DUMETT

       Nkrumah & the Chiefs

      The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951–60

      RICHARD RATHBONE

       Ghanaian Popular Fiction

      ‘Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life’ & Other Tales

      STEPHANIE NEWELL

       Paths of Accommodation

      Muslim Societies & French Colonial Authorities in Senegal & Mauritania 1880–1920

      DAVID ROBINSON

       Slavery & Reform in West Africa

      Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Senegal & the Gold Coast

      TREVOR R. GETZ

       Ouidah

      The Social History of a West African Slaving ‘Port’ 1727–1892

      ROBIN LAW

       Between the Sea & the Lagoon

      An Eco-social History of the Anlo of South-eastern Ghana, c. 1850 to Recent Times

      EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG

       West African Challenge to Empire

      Culture & History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War

      MAHIR SAUL & PATRICK ROYER

       ‘Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan’

      Chieftaincy & Civic Culture in a Yoruba City

      RUTH WATSON

       Smugglers, Secessionists & Loyal Citizens on the Ghana–Togo Frontier

      The Lie of the Borderlands since 1914

      PAUL NUGENT

       Eurafricans in Western Africa

      Commerce, Social Status, Gender & Religious Observance from the 16th to the 18th Century

      GEORGE E. BROOKS

       Fighting the Slave Trade

      West African Strategies

      SYLVIANE A. DIOUF (ED.)

       ‘Kola is God’s Gift’*

      Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the Kola Industry in Asante & the Gold Coast c. 1820–1950

      EDMUND ABAKA

      Themes in West Africa’s History*

      EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG (ED.)

      * forthcoming

       Ouidah

      The Social History of a West African Slaving ‘Port’ 1727–1892

      ROBIN LAW

       Professor of African History

       University of Stirling

       Ohio University Press

      ATHENS

       James Currey

      OXFORD

      eBook edition published 2016

      Ohio University Press

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      Copyright © Robin Law 2004

      First published 2004

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       British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Law, Robin

      Ouidah : the social history of a West African slaving ‘port’, 1727-1892. - (West African studies)

      1. Slave trade - Africa, West - History - 18th century 2. Slave trade - Africa, West - History - 19th century 3. Ouidah (Benin) - History - 18th century 4. Ouidah (Benin) - History - 19th century I. Title

      966.8'3

      ISBN 0-85255-498-2 (James Currey cloth)

      ISBN 0-85255-497-4 (James Currey paper)

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available on request

      ISBN 0-8214-1571-9 (Ohio University Press cloth)

      ISBN 0-8214-1572-7 (Ohio University Press paper)

      Typeset in 10-1/2/11-1/2 pt Monotype Ehrhardt