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Agoli-agbo, Last King of Dahomey
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Title: Agoli-agbo, Last King of Dahomey
Caption: Proclamation of the new King of Dahomey, 1894. Agoli-agbo is considered to have been the twelfth and final King of Dahomey. He was in power from 1894 to 1900. The French general Alfred Dodds offered the throne to every one of the immediate royal family, in return for a signature on a treaty establishing a French protectorate over the Kingdom; all refused. Finally, Béhanzin's Army Chief of Staff Prince Agoli-agbo, brother of Béhanzin and son of King Glélé, signed. He was appointed to the throne, as a traditional chief rather than head of state of a sovereign nation, by the French when he agreed to sign the instrument of surrender. Agoli-agbo went into exile in Gabon. In 1910, he was allowed to return and to live in the Save-Region. He occasionally returned to Abomey in order to perform ancestor worship for the departed kings. The Kingdom of Dahomey was an African kingdom (present-day Benin) that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the country was annexed into the French colonial empire. The kings of Dahomey sold their war captives into transatlantic slavery. It flourished in the region of Dahomey for almost three hundred years, beginning in 1472 with a trade agreement with Portuguese merchants. The area was named the Slave Coast because of this flourishing trade.
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Image size: 3725 × 4200 px | 44.8 MB
Print size: 31.5 × 35.6 cm | 1466.5 × 1653.5 in (300 dpi)
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