Description:
The British Vice-Consulate for the kingdom of Dahomey (in the modern Republic of Bénin, West Africa) in 1851-1852 was established to suppress the trans-Atlantic slave trade. These documents are valuable sources for the history of British policy on the slave trade for Dahomey, one of the most important indigenous states in coastal West Africa.
Review Quotes: Law draws upon his unsurpassed expertise in the history of this region of West Africa ... yet another major contribution to precolonial West African history from a scholar who has done so much to define that field of study in recent decades.-- "International Journal of African Historical Studies"