Dahomey and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade : The Journals and Correspondence of Vice-Consul Louis Fraser, 1851-1852

The British Vice-Consulate for the kingdom of Dahomey (in the modern Republic of Bnin, West Africa) in 1851-1852 was established to suppress the trans-Atlantic slave trade. These documents are valuable sources for the history of British policy on the slave trade for Dahomey, one of the most important indigenous states in coastal West Africa.