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Abson & Company - Slave Traders in Eighteenth- Century West Africa (Hardcover)
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Abson & Company - Slave Traders in Eighteenth- Century West Africa (Hardcover)
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Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest surviving European
stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached
William's Fort at Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767,
took over the English fort in 1770, and remained in charge until
his death in 1803. He avoided the 'white man's grave' for
thirty-six years. Along the way he had three sons with an African
woman, the eldest partly schooled in England, and a bright daughter
named Sally. When Abson died, royal lackeys kidnapped his children.
Sally was placed in the king's harem and pined away; her brothers
vanished. That king became so unpopular as a result that the people
of Dahomey disowned him. Abson also mastered the local language and
became an historian. After only two years as fort chief, he was
part of the king's delegation to make peace with an enemy, a unique
event in centuries of Dahomean history. This singular book recounts
the remarkable life of this key figure in an ignominious period of
European and African history, offering a microcosm of the lives of
Europeans in eighteenth-century West Africa, and their
relationships with and attitudes towards those they met there.
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