African Vodun
Subtitle: Art, Psychology, and Power
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780226058603
First sentence: Between 1710 and 1810 over a million slaves (principally of Fon, Aja, Nago, Mahi, Ayizo, and Gedevi descent) were exported on English, French, and Portuguese vessels out of the Bight of Benin and what was then called the Slave Coast of Africa (Curtin 1969:228; Manning 1982:335) (fig. 16).