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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by IronLion: [qb] The French built a slave castle in the 17th century on the coast of present day Benin Republic, near Allada and Dahomey, which used to be vassals of the Benin Empire. The French named that slave castle Fort Judah...Ouidah. Go figure![/qb] [/QUOTE]Ouidah was a city of greedy African merchants [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Couronnement_du_roi_de_Juida-Jacob_van_der_Schley_mg_8490.jpg/800px-Couronnement_du_roi_de_Juida-Jacob_van_der_Schley_mg_8490.jpg[/IMG] The origins of Dahomey: Electronic Pages last paragraph of 18 and 19 Robin Law http://www.fiu.edu/~ogundira/Law_Historiography_of_the_Rise_of_Dahomey.pdf [QUOTE] Traditions recorded in the mid-eighteenth century suggest that it had had its origins in a gang of bandits: the king of Dahomey, some said, was originally ‘a trader in hens who withdrew into the woods, where he formed a gang, with which he made himself into a formidable Bandit’ Alternaitively, or perhaps at a second stage, he had been a mercenary, who ‘had discovered the secret of gathering nine to ten thousand men, whom he paid and hired out to those who need his services… and always to the one who paid the most…. …According to Snelgrave, he (Agaja) came to assist a rebellious prince of Allada, in return for a ‘large Sum of Money’, and it was apparently only at a later stage that he broke with the prince and seized power in Allada for himself.[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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