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French West African colony
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dahomey
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Dahomey was an African kingdom (located in the area of the present-day country of Benin ) that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Behanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire . Dahomey ...
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n. (context historical English) A former country in Africa, located in present-day Benin.
Usage examples of dahomey.
Dahomey, the Mandinka, the Yoruba, of tribes yet unborn in the tides of time.
Sanchez, who was an astonishing good plucked 'un, for a Dago, actually went up to talk to Gezo a day later, to see that all was well, and found the black rascal full of alarm in case Spring was going to wash his hands of the Dahomey trade.
It was only later, after the economic facts of life had forced several ex-colonial countries to federate into groups sharing a common European language - such as Mali, Dahomey and Upper Volta into Dahomalia, and Ghana and Nigeria into RUNG - that they became aware of a curious phenomenon.
I can't say it's none of my biznai, because it was once: in my time, I've raided blacks from the Dahomey Coast, shipped 'em across the Middle Passage, driven them on a plantation - and run them to freedom on the Underground Railroad and across the Ohio ice-floes with a bullet in my rump, to say nothing of abetting J.