
The slave trade fueled part of the economy of Dahomey in the mid-1800s. Captured enemies would be sold to European slavers for profit. (“Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the yearand 1850” by Frederick E. Forbes. London, Longman, Brown, Green,and Longmans, 1851, World Digital Library via Library of Congress)
“Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the yearand 1850” by Frederick E. Forbes. London, Longman, Brown, Green,and Longmans, 1851, World Digital Library via Library of Congress