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| | Adandozan |
 | | He refused to pay Francisco de Souza[?], a Brazilian merchant and trader who had become a major middle-man in the Ouidah[?] slave market, for services rendered, imprisoned and tortured de Souza, and then attempted to have his own ministers sell the slaves directly. |
 | | This traditional portrayal may be wrong: like Richard II of England in the Wars of the Roses, Adandozan may have been the object of a propagandistic rewriting of history after he lost the throne, turned into a monster by his successor as a means of excusing the coup d'état and legitimizing the new regime. |
 | | In order to justify the coup, Gakpe may then have been obliged to have his griots[?] (oral historians) tell of the monstrous and mad Adandozan, just as Henry Tudor was obliged to have Tudor historians tell of the mad, hunch-backed Richard II murdering the boy princes in the tower. |
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