The Western Slave Coast and Its Rulers: European Trade and Administration Among the Yoruba and Adja-speaking Peoples of South-western Nigeria, Southern Dahomey and Togo

by Colin W. Newbury

A survey of the history of the western slave coast of Africa, a name derived from the principal aspect of early relations between Europe and Africa. This history is traced from the kings of Abomey in the mid-seventeenth century through the three different European administrations, to the establishment of the Fon and Yoruba Protectorates in the late nineteenth- century. A survey of the history of the western slave coast of Africa, a name derived from the principal aspect of early relations between Europe and Africa. This history is traced from the kings of Abomey in the mid-seventeenth century through the three different European administrations, to the establishment of the Fon and Yoruba Protectorates in the late nineteenth- century.

234 pages, Hardcover

First published September 28, 1983

Reviews

[Lious Moco · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loathe "Western slave coast" in the name of the book, but it has instructive data. It's seems to have an unbiased analysis of the motives that led the British to attack Lagos in 1851 which is surprising for a book written by a European man in the epoch when African historiography was still at its early stages.