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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books on: Ouidah  - 71 results

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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
therefore possible that he was in Ouidah less than three weeks. Since the Clotilda...in Idigni had reached either Abomey or Ouidah. 77. Roche, Historic Sketches, 8 1...This depiction of events-supposedly at Ouidah-confirms the stop in Abomey that did...
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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
...Souza, the friend of King Ghezo, in Ouidah, was the most event- ful. Until his...Presence on the Slave Coast The Blockade of Ouidah (1876-77). An Afro-Brazilian trader...and Britain. Summoned by the Yovogan of Ouidah, three charges were laid against him...
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Black Mother: The Years of the African Slave Trade
Book by Basil Davidson; Little, Brown, 1961
Subjects: Africa, East--History, Congo (Democratic Republic)--History, Guinea (Region)--History, Slave Trade--Africa
...even built themselves a little fort at Ouidah so as to manage the trade more efficiently. A curious fragment of the past, the Ouidah fort remains a Portuguese possession to...there, annual exports from Ardra and Ouidah were running at about 20,000 captives...
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The African Slave Trade: Precolonial History,1450-1850
Book by Basil Davidson; Little Brown, 1961
Subjects: Africa, Eastern--History, Africa, West--History--To 1884, Slave Trade--Africa, Eastern--History, Slave Trade--Africa, West--History
...even built themselves a little fort at Ouidah so as to manage the trade more efficiently. A curious fragment of the past, the Ouidah fort remains a Portuguese possession to...there, annual exports from Ardra and Ouidah were running at about 20,000 captives...
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Africa in Latin America: Essays on History, Culture, and Socialization
Book by Manuel Moreno Fraginals; Holmes & Meier, 1984
...Prince of Joinville, having passed through Ouidah in 1843, referred to Francisco Felix...communication were plentiful: for some years, Ouidah and Bahia were tied by more than a hundred...wrote: "The countryside surrounding Ouidah is very interesting. The land is good...
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journal articles on: Ouidah  - 36 results

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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...This definitive history of the "port" of Ouidah is a painstaking reconstruction not just...
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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 an...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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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...Vodun that allows this transcendence. (1) Ouidah narrates the rich and complex history of...
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Acting Out: Performing Memory of Enslavement in Ouidah, Benin Republic
Journal article by Toni Pressley-Sanon; The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online), Vol. 4, 2011
...Performing Memory of Enslavement in Ouidah, Benin Republic by Toni Pressley-Sanon...the Atlantic Ocean. Using examples from Ouidah, Benin Republic, once a major hub of...West coast of Africa, specifically, Ouidah. As Leary and Richards suggest, it is...
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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...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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magazine articles on: Ouidah  - 8 results

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Benin: The Belly of History
Magazine article by Stephen Williams; African Business, December 2002
...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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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'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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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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Scotland's Forgotten Explorer: Overshadowed by Livingstone, Burton and Stanley, the Exploits of the Hapless John Duncan Have Been All but Forgotten. Derek O'Connor Tells the Story of a Pioneering Scottish Explorer in the Old West African French Colony of Dahomey
Magazine article by Derek O'Connor; Geographical, Vol. 77, November 2005
Subjects: Benin--History, Discoveries (in geography)--History, Discovery and exploration--History, Explorers--Behavior, Humanitarian aid--History
...route to the Kongs. Frustrated by successive delays, Duncan extended his travels farther east along the coast to Whydah (Ouidah) in Dahomey. It was there that his luck finally changed. Infamous on the Bight of Benin as a "nest of Spanish and Portuguese...
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newspaper articles on: Ouidah  - 2 results

 
 
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Treasure Hunter Hits Gold
Newspaper article; Coffs Coast Advocate (Coffs Harbour, Australia), January 16, 2010
...opening. The former slave ships original purpose is reflected in its name, which is based on the West African trading town of Ouidah. A new book, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, casts pirates and piracy as downright progressive, politically...
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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...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ouidah  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Ouidah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OUIDAH we da or Whydah hwi d , town (1992 pop...Dutch traders were intermittently active at Ouidah, whose name was derived by Europeans from...Adjuda). In the 18th and early 19th cent. Ouidah was an important export point for slaves...
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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 main geographic...being transported annually, especially from Great Ardra and Ouidah, located on what was called the Slave Coast . In order to establish...
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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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