OUIDAH

wēˈdä or Whydahhwīˈdə, town (1992 pop. 32,474), S Benin, a port on the Gulf of Guinea. It was the capital of a small state founded about the 16th cent. From the early 17th cent., Portuguese, French, and Dutch traders were intermittently active at Ouidah, whose name was derived by Europeans from a nearby Portuguese fort called São João Baptista de Ajudá (St. John of Adjuda). In the 18th and early 19th cent. Ouidah was an important export point for slaves. In the 1840s the French established a substantial trade with Ouidah, exchanging textiles, guns, and gunpowder for palm oil and ivory. The town was annexed by France in 1886. Ouiday is a center of the Vodoun (voodoo) religion.

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Book by Sylviane A. Diouf; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Clotilda (Ship), Mobile (Ala.)--Race Relations--History--19th Century, Mobile (Ala.)--Social Conditions--19th Century, Slave Trade--Alabama--Mobile--History--19th Century, Slave Trade--United States--History--19th Century, Slavery--Alabama--History--19th Century, Slaves--Alabama--Biography, Slaves--Alabama--History--19th Century, West Africans--Alabama--Biography, West Africans--Alabama--History--19th Century
...2 West African Origins 30 3 Ouidah 55 4 Arrival in Mobile 72...locked up in a slave pen, a barracoon, in Ouidah. They had names like Kossola, Abache...innocuous cargo ship, Foster sailed to Ouidah in March 1860. There, in a barracoon...
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From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited
Book by Doudou Diène; Berghahn Books/UNESCO, 2001
Subjects: Slave Trade--Africa--Congresses, Slave Trade--America--Congresses, Slave Trade--Europe--Congresses
...CONFERENCE for the Slave Route project, Ouidah's ambition was to be the meeting place...that make the Slave Route project and the Ouidah Conference central to, on the one hand...was in Benin, and more particularly at Ouidah, at once a memorial to and the living...
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Dahomey: Between Tradition and Modernity
Book by Dov Ronen; Cornell University Press, 1975
Subjects: Benin--Politics And Government--1960-
...remained on the coast, in the towns of Ouidah, Cotonou, and Grand Popo, held themselves...believed to have been with the Portuguese at Ouidah on the coast in the 1580s; it is recorded...Frenchman, Nicolas Olivier, settled in Ouidah in 1623 and at that time commercial...
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West Africa: A Study of the Environment and of Man's Use of It
Book by R. J. Harrison Church; John Wiley & Sons, 1968
Subjects: Human Geography--Africa, West
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From Slave Trade to Empire: European Colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s
Book by Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan--Colonization, Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--To 1884
...British cannon and the trade preferred to take refuge on the mainland, particularly using the estuaries). Moreover, a site like Ouidah, with no port and difficult access, was one of the most important slave-trading sites and, although nearer Europe than all the...
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Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727-1892
Journal article by Trevor Getz; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727-1892 (Book)--Book reviews
Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727-1892. by Trevor Getz Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving "Port," 1727-1892...308. $49.95.) This definitive history of the "port" of Ouidah is a painstaking reconstruction not just of the towns social...
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Contemporary Vodun Arts of Ouidah, Benin
Journal article by Dana Rush; African Arts, Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Art, Benin, Biokou, Simonet--Exhibitions, Dakpogan, Calixte--Exhibitions, Tokoudagba, Cyprien--Exhibitions, Voodooism--Portrayals
Contemporary Vodun Arts of Ouidah, Benin. by Dana Rush The contemporary Vodun arts of the city of Ouidah in the Republic of Benin are a testament...that allows this transcendence. (1) Ouidah narrates the rich and complex history...
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On Ouidah Asen
Journal article by Edna G. Bay; African Arts, Vol. 40, 2007
Subjects: African art, Art, African, West Africa--History, West Africa--Social aspects
On Ouidah Asen. by Edna G. Bay In 1989 Suzanne Preston Blier published...wrought-iron asen that I identified in 1985 as characteristic of a Ouidah style. Because Ouidah asen are increasingly visible in exhibitions, it would seem appropriate...
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Escaping a Dystopian Present: Compensatory and Anticipatory Utopias in Bruce Chatwin's the Viceroy of Ouidah and the Songlines
Journal article by Marie Williams; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003
...Utopias in Bruce Chatwins the Viceroy of Ouidah and the Songlines. by Marie Williams...The Songlines (1987) and The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) in terms of their representation...aspects of Chatwins texts. The Viceroy of Ouidah and the Failure of Personal Utopian Dreaming...
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The Face of the Bandit: Racism and the Slave Trade in Herzog's Cobra Verde
Journal article by Brad Prager; Film Criticism, Vol. 28, 2004
Subjects: Cobra Verde (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Herzog, Werner--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation
...partly historical book The Viceroy of Ouidah, which tells the story of a nineteenth-century...Although it is based on The Viceroy of Ouidah, Werner Herzogs film Cobra Verde (1987...point, da Silva becomes the Viceroy of Ouidah, taking the seat of power alongside Kankpe...
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An Ode to Ancestors
Magazine article by Susanne Kallanian; School Arts, Vol. 104, February 2005
Subjects: Benin--Social aspects, Benin--Study and teaching, Classroom management--Management, Classroom techniques--Management, Fon (African people)--Study and teaching
...expanded its territory, securing the port of Ouidah in the early eighteenth century. With...and visitors to the West African coast. Ouidah, in particular, developed into a cosmopolitan...West African coast, and in particular to Ouidah as traders and craftspeople. With constant...
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Benin: The Belly of History
Magazine article by Stephen Williams; African Business, December 2002
...in Benin, I can recommend visiting Porto Novo, Ouidah and Abomey. PORTO Novo AND OUIDAH Cotonou may be Benins commercial hub, but the...monopolised the slave trade out of the port of Ouidah in the mid 19th century. Guidab is about 30kms...
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Benin's Art of History
Magazine article by Stephen Williams; New African, April 2006
Subjects: African art--History, Art, African--History, Beninese history--Analysis
...Allada to its south and the coastal town of Ouidah, the principal slaving port of this part...world. About 70km west of Porto Novo is Ouidah, once the principal slave centre of the region. Ouidah itself is not actually on the coast, it...
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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 137, January 2009
Subjects: Maritime museums--Exhibitions, Naval museums--Exhibitions, Piracy (Transportation crime)--Influence
...be discovered in U.S. waters. "Real Pirates" tells the true story of the Whydah--named after the West African trading town of Ouidah--a ship that sank off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., nearly 300 years ago. Showcased are treasure chests of gold coins and jewelry...
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A Fresh Breeze Blows in Bahia
Magazine article by Christopher Dunn; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 46, May-June 1994
Subjects: Historic buildings--Maintenance and repair, Historic districts--Buildings, facilities, etc., Salvador, Brazil--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...established distinct "Brazilian" communities in cities such as Ouidah, on the coast of Benin, and Lagos, Nigeria. Their syncretic...cities. Its counterpart, Maison de Bahia, was constructed in Ouidah, but has since been abandoned. From the entrance of the Casa...
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So Much to Do; Just a Bus Ride Away
Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), September 3, 1999
...Intercultural Dance Drama. Jigsaw Youth Theatre, Just Us, mac, Monday Morning Music, New Art Gallery, Walsall, Notorious, Ouidah Arts, Playbox Theatre, Rhubarb Digbeth, Round Midnight Theatre Co., Royal Shakespeare Company, Sahotas, Salsa King, SAMPAD...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ouidah  - 3 results

 
 
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Ouidah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OUIDAH we da or Whydah hwi d , town (1992 pop. 32,474), S...French, and Dutch traders were intermittently active at Ouidah, whose name was derived by Europeans from a nearby Portuguese...St. John of Adjuda). In the 18th and early 19th cent. Ouidah was an important export point for slaves. In the 1840s...
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Whydah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WHYDAH Benin: see Ouidah . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Benin , Country, Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...city and chief port. Other principal towns include Abomey , Ouidah , and Parakou . Land and People Benin falls into four...being transported annually, especially from Great Ardra and Ouidah, located on what was called the Slave Coast . In order to...


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