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On the Coast of Benin: The Slave Trade's Rise and Fall in Ouidah
This episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade takes you to the coast of Benin, to the port of Ouidah—once the busiest slave trading post in West Africa. Lucas and Luna explore how the Kingdom of Dahomey transformed from a regional power into a military machine fueled by the human trade, with King Agaja's conquest of the coast in 1727. They walk through the Portuguese Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá, the Route of Slaves, and the infamous Tree of Forgetting, where captives were ritually stripped of their past. They discuss the complex role of King Ghezo, who fought to end the tribute of…
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