Ouidah III information

Ouidah III is an arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune...

Ouidah (/ˈwiːdə/) or Whydah (/ˈhwɪdə, -ɔː/; Ouidah, Juida, and Juda by the French; Ajudá by the Portuguese; and Fida by the Dutch), and known locally as...

Ségbohoué, Tokpa-Domè Avlékété, Djégbadji, Gakpè, Ouakpé-Daho, Ouidah I, Ouidah II, Ouidah III, Ouidah IV, Pahou, Savi Ahomey-Lokpo, Dékanmey, Ganvié I, Ganvié...

Consul Heinrich Ludwig Randad Jr., resident agent of the firm C. Goedelts at Ouidah, was appointed as the first commissioner for the territory. In 1899, Germany...

their empire, Akwamu extended 400 kilometres (250 mi) along the coast from Ouidah, Benin in the East to Winneba, Ghana, in the West. The Akwamu are one of...

prosperous. It set up six forts on the Gold Coast, and another post at Ouidah, farther east on the Slave Coast, which became its principal centre for...

and traders to West African coasts. These memoirs mention such cities as Ouidah and Abomey. Among the most circulated texts are those of Archibald Dalzel...

perpetuana was exported to America. The cloth was exchanged for slaves at Ouidah in Benin and at Accra in Ghana. Olfert Dapper, a 17th-century writer, mentioned...

flows were instrumental in the development of the powerful states of Benin, Ouidah and others along the coast.-: 179–83  Between 1500 and 1875 at least 30...

2006. Retrieved February 6, 2021. "Erskine May on Slavery in Britain (Vol. III, Chapter XI)". Retrieved November 2, 2017. Barrowman, James (September 14...

Initially established as a war camp for soldiers from the Kingdom of Benin. Ouidah Kingdom of Whydah  Benin 16th century AD The primary port of the Kingdom...

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during the slave trade. Bruce Chatwin's historical novel The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) is largely based around Francisco Félix de Sousa, the slave trader...

Pennsylvania Press. pp. 1, 21, 31. ISBN 978-0-8122-4673-5. Law, Robin (2004). Ouidah: the social history of a West African slaving 'port', 1727–1892. Athens...

Moree, the head of Fort Crèvecoeur at Accra, and the head of the factory at Ouidah, on the Dutch Slave Coast. Between 1746 and 1768, the Council consisted...

welcoming people from around the world. Fête du Vodoun: also known as the Ouidah Voodoo Festival. It is centred around their rituals on voodoo temples, with...

post at Ouidah, which according to sources was established around 1670. Political unrest caused the Dutch to abandon their trading post at Ouidah in 1725...

The same year, the tiny Portuguese fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá in Ouidah, a remnant of the West African slave trade, was annexed by the new government...

Ranger. They captured several vessels in January 1722, then sailed into Ouidah (Whydah) harbour with black flags flying. The eleven ships at anchor there...

vol. XXI, No. 1, 21 (1): 1–3, 5, 7–85, JSTOR 29782194 Law, Robin (2004). Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'port' 1727-1892. Ohio State...

The Portuguese built forts in neighboring Ghana (at Elmina) and Benin (at Ouidah). Although the coast of Togo had no natural harbors, the Portuguese did...

of several prisoners. Many of the prisoners were also sold as slaves at Ouidah, then called Gléwé(puff adder house).These wars marked the beginning of...

Cape Cod. The ship, built in London in 1715 and named for the Kingdom of Ouidah in Africa, was a private slaver of Sir Humphry Morice on its maiden voyage...

the brothers and Biokou were commissioned to contribute statues in Ouidah for Ouidah 92, a festival that brings attention to the African Diaspora in Benin...