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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Ouidah
		Ouidah (also Whydah in English) is a city on the Atlantic coast of Benin.
		Ouidah on the coast of Dahomey (originally AjudÃ¡, from Hweda, on the Atlantic coast of modern Benin), reached by the Portuguese in 1580, after which it grew around the slave trade.
		Bruce Chatwinâs book The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) is a fictional retelling of the life of Francisco FÃ©lix de Sousa, the Sousa family founder in Benin and that of his powerful local descendants, dealing also with the subject of slave trade with Brazil.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Ouidah (709 words)

	History of Ouidah
		Ouidah is best known for its central role in the slave trade during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, during which time nearly 1,000,000 individuals were boarded onto ships from the beach at Ouidah and were transported across the Atlantic.
		Originally, however, Ouidah (once Gléwé) was a small village in the small Xwéda kingdom that supported itself through agriculture, hunting and fishing in the coastal lagoons — the inhabitants had very little to do with the sea and its treacherous tides.
		The slave trade was extremely active, and by the middle of the 18 th century the population of Ouidah verged on 10,000 inhabitants, and had reached its economic apogee.
	www.museeouidah.org /HistoryOfOuidah.htm (438 words)

	Wonders of the African World - Slave Kingdoms - Ouidah
		Ouidah was a densely populated, prosperous kingdom located on the Slave Coast of West Africa in what is now Benin.
		Before the 17th century, the Aja peoples who populated the region of Ouidah and that of its inland predecessor, the kingdom of Allada, had not developed a commercial or maritime tradition and supported themselves with lagoon fishing, agriculture, and hunting.
		After Dahomey conquered and pacified Ouidah in 1727-28, the Dahomian king appointed bureaucratic officials to administer Ouidah as the principal port and commercial capital of the kingdom.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi3/ouidah.htm (323 words)

	Ouidah, english presentation
		Proud of its history and culture, the town of Ouidah resolutely wants to be closer to its brothers of the Diaspora.
		It is a tree of purification used for infusions during the Ouidah ceremonies.
		Strong is their belief, and thus they go round the tree three times to guarantee the return of their soul, after their death, to the land of their ancestors and of their gods.
	www.festival-ouidah.org /Ouidahanglais.htm (861 words)

	Contemporary Vodun arts of Ouidah, Benin African Arts - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The contemporary Vodun arts of the city of Ouidah in the Republic of Benin are a testament to the strength and flexibility of a belief system that is perpetually inventing, reinventing, and modifying itself.
		Ouidah narrates the rich and complex history of Benin for local and international audiences through contemporary arts that represent gods and kings and that depict the atrocities of enslavement.
		Ouidah 92 was more than a celebration of democracy, religious freedom, and cultural pride; more than a means of promoting local artists; and more than a consciously organized attempt to bring tourism to Benin.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0438/is_4_34/ai_85031229 (842 words)

	Ouidah, Benin - November 2005
		Ouidah is a relatively small town about an hour or so from Cotonou by shared taxi.
		Ouidah was the only port city in Benin and the route is speckled with poignant memorials.
		Ouidah is, at least according to the majority of sources we found, the center of the Voudon religion.
	www.mrfs.net /trips/2005/West_African_Coast/Ouidah/Ouidah.html (740 words)

	Le Bénin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ouidah was considered to be the religious capital of Benin because the many feasts peppered with songs, drums and dances show that no traditional belief or superstition has been distorted or discontinued.
		The historical Museum of Ouidah located in the ancient Portuguese fort (1721) is full of the relics of the slave trade with the American continent.
		Ouidah 92, organised in February 1993, in Ouidah, was an opportunity for establishing a circuit which commemorates and recalls the deportation of tens of thousands of men, women and children.
	www.gouv.bj /en/benin/tourisme/ouidah.php (301 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ouidah (Benin Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the early 17th cent., Portuguese, French, and Dutch traders were intermittently active at Ouidah, whose name was derived by Europeans from a nearby Portuguese fort called SAo JoAo Baptista de AjudA (St. John of Adjuda).
		Ouidah was an important export point for slaves.
		In the 1840s the French established a substantial trade with Ouidah, exchanging textiles, guns, and gunpowder for palm oil and ivory.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Ouidah.html (217 words)

	Ouidah: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		...remained on the coast, in the towns of Ouidah, Cotonou, and Grand Popo, held themselves...believed to have been with the Portuguese at Ouidah on the coast in the 1580s; it is recorded...Frenchman, Nicolas Olivier, settled in Ouidah in 1623 and at that time commercial...
		Ouidah, in particular, developed into a cosmopolitan...West African coast, and in particular to Ouidah as traders and craftspeople.
		PORTO Novo AND OUIDAH Cotonou may be Benins commercial hub, but the...monopolised the slave trade out of the port of Ouidah in the mid 19th century.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/ouidah.jsp (1178 words)

	International Film Festival of Ouidah
		Ouidah is a heavenly place with breathtaking beeches and plentiful vegetation.
		Ouidah is historically important: it was the main harbour for the slave trade.
		Ouidah is already a tourist venue with its museum, its sacred forest, its cathedral, its python temple, and its neo-Portuguese architecture.
	www.festival-ouidah.org /engindex.htm (214 words)

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		Ouidah, situated about 40 minutes drive west of Cotonou is probably both the historically and culturally most important city of Benin.
		Ouidah was the major slave port in Benin, and had five fortresses, among which only one is still there today: The Portuguese slave fort which today hosts the history museum.
		The Pyton Temple of Ouidah is almost 500 years old, and the sacred Pyton snakes are cultivated in their own house on the temple compound.
	home.online.no /~annekie/ouidah.htm (398 words)

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		For travelers interested in either historical or religious Benin, Ouidah is the ideal destination.
		Today, the practice of traditional religion, known as voodoo remains strong, and is one of the main reasons travelers come to Ouidah.
		This sacred temple is now one of the chief tourist attractions in Ouidah but there is not really much to see here, other than the reptiles, which takes all of a few minutes and will cost you as much as an hour in the Voodoo museum.
	www.benintourisme.com /ang/places/autres/dth.ouidah.htm (529 words)

	H-Net Review: Ty M. Reese on Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727-1892 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ouidah and Dahomey, like Elmina and Asante, represent some of the most recognizable names of West African ports and states during the transatlantic slave trade.
		Ouidah, like other West African ports, was a part of the larger Atlantic economy which, as these ports integrated themselves into Atlantic trade networks, maintained control over local cross-cultural trade.
		According to Law, Ouidah and other coastal ports served four major roles in that they organized "overseas commerce," developed relations with the hinterland, were affected by "Atlantic commerce" and experienced problems in the transition to legitimate trade (p.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=229431141142079 (1295 words)

	Ouidah - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the early 17th cent., Portuguese, French, and Dutch traders were intermittently active at Ouidah, whose name was derived by Europeans from a nearby Portuguese fort called São João Baptista de Ajudá (St. John of Adjuda).
		Ouiday is a center of the Vodoun (voodoo) religion.
		EPIVAC Training Program Launch: The Organisation and Management of Public Systems of Prevention Through Immunization in Developing Nations; Ouidah - Benin - November 2002.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ouidah.html (294 words)

	Blackwell Online - Ouidah
		Ouidah, an African town in the Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region.
		Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region, and the second most important town of the Dahomey kingdom.
		Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the 'Slave Coast'.
	bookshop.blackwell.co.uk /bobuk/scripts/home.jsp?action=search&type=isbn&term=0852554974&source=3246541172 (321 words)

	The Viceroy of Ouidah (Bruce Chatwin) - book review
		Her life has been one of disappointments: the English lieutenant she loved abandoned her; a favourite nephew died of cholera; and the clergy refused to go along with her attempt to convert Dom Francisco's bedroom into a shrine.
		It is emotionally restrained, maintaining an even tone for the comic and the tragic, for the macabre and the lyrical, but with such a dramatic and compelling story and setting, and such vivid descriptions, no playing with the heart-strings is necessary.
		Connecting two continents and spanning two centuries, The Viceroy of Ouidah effectively conveys a feel for cultural and geographical distances and the passing of time.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Viceroy_Ouidah.html (217 words)

	NPR : Slavery's Bitter Legacy in W. Africa
		Statue of a bound and gagged woman at the Slavery Museum in Ouidah, Benin.
		Morning Edition, April 12, 2004 · The Portuguese began trading African slaves in Europe in the 1440s, and by the early 1500s ships filled with slaves captured in Africa began sailing across the Atlantic to the New World.
		She has quite a perspective on the issue: Her great grandmother was a slave, and her great, great, great-grandfather was the infamous Francisco "Cha Cha" de Souza, a Portuguese slave trader.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1833314 (759 words)

	About the Ouidah Museum of History
		The Ouidah Museum of History contains a wealth of objects and illustrations of historic and cultural significance, which together gives the visitor an intimate understanding of the region's past.
		In its earliest days the Portuguese conducted trade for slaves within the walls of the compound, and throughout its history until it was taken by the Kingdom of Dahomey it served as the site of the diplomatic presence of Portugal in the area.
		After the fort became property of Dahomey in 1961, the Dahomean government began restoration, and in 1967 the fort became the Ouidah Museum of History.
	www.museeouidah.org /AboutTheMuseum.htm (298 words)

	Foire d'Opinions Haitiennes - Ouidah, Voodoo City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Next step of the visit to Ouidah (Xweda is the city’s original name, deformed by the French colons) is the Sacred Forest, a gallery of the major divinities sculpted in argyle or metal by different artists.
		For example, in Ouidah, the population went into hiding in the Sacred Forest rendering their capture impossible by the forces of the kings of Dahomey.
		In 2002, it is estimated that 65% of Beninese are of Voodoo faith.
	www.haitiwebs.com /haitianforums/showthread.php?t=5130 (614 words)

	Noble Desire \| WHRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Three hundred years ago, Ouidah was the main port of exit for millions of Africans.
		Only a few forts have survived in Benin and the Portugese fort in Ouidah was where the conference participants started on the road to reconciliation.
		The waves crash upon the shore of Ouidah.
	www.whro.com /home/html/benin/ouidah.shtml (986 words)

	Ouidah, Benin
		If you are not satisfied with information about Ouidah found here, please go to Travel Benin main page.
		Ouidah is a town which might be interesting for a lot of different reasons.
		It is a port located about 40 km from Kotonu and it has a population of about 82 000.
	www.odyssei.com /destinations/12138.html (290 words)

	Houses / homes for sale or for rent in Ouidah - Vacation Rental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If you are considering buying real estate in Ouidah, or anywhere else for that matter, the most widely used method of borrowing the funds to make the purchase is a mortgage.
		When renting a home in Ouidah you are usually limited to the changes/improvements you can make.
		In many cases vacation rentals in Ouidah are offered by the owners of the property but in some instances real estate agents offer vacation rentals in Ouidah.
	www.propertyworld.com /_Benin_Benin_Ouidah (831 words)

	Amazon.de: The Viceroy of Ouidah.: English Books: Bruce Chatwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph, but his friendship with the mad, mercurial king of Dahomey is fraught with danger and threatens his dream.
		The Viceroy of Ouidah was Francisco Manoel De Souza, (da Silva in Chatwin's book) who came to Ouidah (also spelled "Whydah"; part of the Abomey Empire, later called "the Slave Coast", Dahomey, and currently, Benin) in the 1750's and eventually became the main broker between African slave sellers and European slave buyers.
		He played a significant role in the nation's history, and was actually named Viceroy of Ouidah by an Abomey king.
	www.amazon.de /Viceroy-Ouidah-Bruce-Chatwin/dp/0099769611 (896 words)

	Mappic.org - Travelogue - "Benin: Djougou - Bassila - Abomey - Allada - Ganvié - Ouidah -"
		» Travelogues » Benin: Djougou - Bassila - Abomey - Allada - Ganvié - Ouidah -
		We take the road to Ouidah and over the "route Des esclaves" we arrive in Le Jardin Bresilien Auberge de la Diaspora.
		June 19, 2004: Ouidah - Abomey Our visit to the Casa do Brazil, where an exhibition of fl and white photos about voodoo rituals is supposed to be, turns out to be disappointing.
	mappic.org /viewTravelogue.php?id=57 (1265 words)

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		In Ouidah, then called Whydah, there were at the peek 5 slave fortresses; one French, one Portuguese, one British, one Dutch and one Danish.
		The fortresses served as business centers, and the trade of slaves was mainly made between the representatives on the fortresses and the kings of Abomey.
		The rout of the slaves ends at the beautiful beach of Ouidah, by the “Gate of No Return”, a stunning monument in remembrance of the last glimpse of Africa caught by the slaves.
	home.online.no /~annekie/slavery.htm (646 words)

	A R G E N P R E S S . i n f o - OUIDAH EN EL SIGLO XIX (PARTE I) - 28 / 10 / 2006
		Como principal agente comercial del Rey en Ouidah y como líder de una creciente comunidad afro-brasileña, el Chacha a diferencia del Yovogan, se convirtió en jefe intermediario entre el Rey y los comerciantes europeos, y permaneció en el puesto hasta su muerte ocurrida en 1849.
		A causa de su compromiso con el comercio de esclavos, de Souza fue contemplado por los británicos como uno de los factores principales en el fracaso de sus presiones sobre Ghezo para suprimir el comercio y los sacrificios de seres humanos, a pesar de las numerosas misiones enviadas por ellos, con este propósito, a Abomey.
		Entre 1876 y 1877 Ouidah estuvo sujeta a otro bloqueo británico, dirigido a castigar al sucesor de Ghezo, Glele, quien se había rehusado a pagar una multa de 80 mil galones de aceite de palma, que le había sido impuesta por las autoridades británicas de Lagos.
	www.argenpress.info /nota.asp?num=011789 (1433 words)

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