The Western Slave Coast and Its Rulers: European Trade and Administration Among the Yoruba and Adja-speaking Peoples of South-western Nigeria, Southern Dahomey and Togo

A survey of the history of the western slave coast of Africa, a name derived from the principal aspect of early relations between Europe and Africa. This history is traced from the kings of Abomey in the mid-seventeenth century through the three different European administrations, to the establishment of the Fon and Yoruba Protectorates in the late nineteenth- century.

A survey of the history of the western slave coast of Africa, a name derived from the principal aspect of early relations between Europe and Africa. This history is traced from the kings of Abomey in the mid-seventeenth century through the three different European administrations, to the establishment of the Fon and Yoruba Protectorates in the late nineteenth- century.