Primary Sources |
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- Louis Fraser, Robin Law, and British Academy, Dahomey and the Ending of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: The Journals and Correspondence of Vice-Consul Louis Fraser, 1851-1852 (Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012).
- Thomas Birch Freeman, Journals of Various Visits to the Kingdoms of Ashanti, Aku, and Dahomi in Western Africa. (London: Cass, 1968).
- Frederick E Forbes, Dahomey and the Dahomans being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850. (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851).
Secondary Sources
- Stanley B. Alpern, Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey (New York: NYU Press, 2011).
- Edna G. Bay, Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998).
- Robert B Edgerton, Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000).
- Karl Polanyi, Dahomey and the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economy, American Ethnological Society 42 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966).
- Sylvia Serbin, The Women Soldiers of Dahomey, UNESCO Series on Women in African History (UNESCO publishing, HarperCollins Publishers, 2015).
- Robin Law, “Ouidah A Pre-Colonial Urban Centre in Coastal West Africa,” in Africa’s Urban Past, ed. David Anderson and Richard Rathbone (James Currey Publishers, 2000), 85–97.
- David Anderson and Richard Rathbone, “Urban Africa Histories in the Making,” in Africa’s Urban Past, ed. David Anderson and Richard Rathbone (James Currey Publishers, 2000), 1–17.
Media
Background Photo used on About page:
Poc, Medieval. “The-History-of-Fighting: Dahomey's Warrior Women Speaking of West Africa, the Dahomey Warrior Women Involves a Fascinating History That Spans Nearly 200 Years. It Was during This Time That the Elite Squad of Female Warriors Fought and Died for the Border.” Flickr, Yahoo!, 17 July 2014, www.flickr.com/photos/medievalpoc/14490707028/in/photolist-7JayRY-oeZt6W-owdfVn-8f6bwT-4CzayQ-odJozV-oyfaav-of2LbR-oy7z48-4BUQTr-9up6bx-5VRDsv-o5uEmm-oefB2i-oweoB3-W9aL7U-owkmXu-yxUBL4-W9aKZj.
Background image used on Warrior Women page:
Behanzin, King of Dahomey, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 23rd April 1892.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/behanzin-king-of-dahomey-1892-a-print-from-the-le-petit-news-photo/463930197#behanzin-king-of-dahomey-1892-a-print-from-the-le-petit-journal-23rd-picture-id463930197
The women performing the dance of the women warriors came from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archive
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archive.
https://www.si.edu/sisearch/collection-images?edan_q=dahomey
Dance of the Amazons outside the palace in Abomey, Kingdom of Dahomey. Fon peoples, Republic of Bénin. Photograph by Eliot Elisofon, 1971. Image no. EEPA EECL 4847. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
"SEH-DONG-HONG-BEH, an amazon in the Dahoman army. " Forbes, Frederick, artist. "[Dahomey and the Dahomans" Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at his Capital, in the years 1849 and 1850, London, 1851.] sketch.
Sketch of the Gbeto decapitating an enemy. USC Digital Library.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll123/id/24985/rec/199
Slave-trade image.
From Pere J.B, Voyage du Chevalier des Marchias en Guinee...en1725,1726,1727. Amsterdam, 1731.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2300094n/f3.highres
All the photos I used of the Gbeto came from google images. I had trouble finding a historical collection that provided images. I searched for sources on many websites that also included the photos, but there was no source found. The links are provided below:
Image of Gbeto warrior with her weapons.
http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/amazone-dahomey-4.jpg
Image used in Background of Bibliography.
http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/amazonian2.jpg
Youtube Video
crashcourse. “The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24.” YouTube, YouTube, 5 July 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY.
Maps
USC Digital Library
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll123/id/89873/rec/1
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll123/id/89873/rec/1