Contrasting images of the upstart slaving-kingdom of Dahomey reached Enlightenment Europe. In an engraving of the 1780s, the African king leans elegantly on a musket—the source of his army’s might.
Historian Green (The Rise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589) won’t disappoint scholarly readers with his dense latest. Covering five centuries, this meticulously researched ...
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