The Viceroy of Ouidah

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Bruce Chatwin’s debut novel:  “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic)

In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.

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kimchicrackers
March 9, 2023
If you are interested in the real story behind the 2023 movie The Woman King, read this book and Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. Hollywood celebrates and lionizes these women. I guess that's fine, but African Americans should know that these were the people who butcherd our ancestors and sold them into slavery for liquor and guns.
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Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. His other books are What Am I Doing Here and Anatomy of Restlessness, posthumous anthologies of shorter works, and Far Journeys, a collection of his photographs that also includes selections from his travel notebooks.

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