Kingdom of Whydah

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The Kingdom of Whydah or Kingdom of Hueda was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in the boundaries of the modern nation of Benin. It was a major slave trading post.

It received this name because most of the European slave traders lived and worked in the port city of Ouidah. However the capital of the kingdom was at Savi. The last ruler of this land was King Haffon.

[edit] References

Harms, Robert. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Basic Books: New York, 2002.

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