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The Dahomey Kingdom became known to European traders at this time as a major source of slaves in the slave trade at Allada and Whydah. [ 5 ] King Agaja , grandson of Houegbadja, came to the throne in 1718 and began significant expansion of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, [3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military.
[11] [12] The British government began putting significant pressure on King Ghezo in the 1840s to end the slave trade in Dahomey. [11] King Ghezo responded to these requests by saying he was unable to end the slave trade because of domestic pressure. [6] Ghezo added: The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people.
This led to Dahomey being one of the leading states in the slave trade with the Oyo Empire, which used slaves for commodity exchange in West Africa until the slave trade in the region ended. The lack of men likely led the kings of Dahomey to recruit women into the army.
Though the possibility that an African monarch tried to put an end to the slave trade is obviously attractive in the twentieth century, historians who have closely considered the evidence from Dahomey suggest, as did the eighteenth-century slave traders, that Dahomey's motive was a desire to trade directly with Europe, and that the kingdom was ...
Kpengla was a King of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1774 until 1789.Kpengla followed his father Tegbessou to the throne and much of his administration was defined by the increasing Atlantic slave trade and regional rivalry over the profits from this trade.
In November 2021, 61 years after Benin gained independence from the French empire, 26 of the many thousands of plundered national antiquities were returned by France to their African home.
Agonglo's (1789-1797) reign had been very contentious ending in his assassination by a brother, Dogan.The slave trade had been largely disrupted for two decades by the Oyo empire, the lack of military success by Dahomey, and European traders changing their focus (the French abolished slavery in 1794 and the British and Portuguese had stopped relying on Dahomey's ports).