Dahomey and the Slave Trade

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Part I. The Frame of History

Chapter One. An Inland Dynasty and the Gap of Benin

Chapter Two. The Challenge of the Slave Trade

Part II. Patterns of the Economy

Chapter Three. Redistribution: The State Sphere

Chapter Four. Reciprocity: Mutual Aid and Cooperation

Chapter Five. Householding: Land and Religion

Part III. The Slave Trade

Chapter Seven. Whydah: Institutional Origins of a Port of Trade

Chapter Eight. Savi: Sovereign Whydah and the Treaty

Chapter Nine. The Port of Trade Under Dahomey

Chapter Ten. Fictitious European Money in the Slave Trade

Part IV. Conclusion

Chapter Eleven. Archaic Economic Institutions

Text Informations

Original Publication: Dahomey and the Slave Trade (ed. by A. Rotstein), USA, The University of Washington Press for the American Ethnological Society, 194 p., 1966
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