Adahoonzou II Quotes
God made war for all the world; and every kingdom, large or small, has practiced it, more or less, though perhaps in a manner unlike, and upon different principles. Did Weebaigah sell slaves? No; his prisoners were all killed to a man. What else could he have done with them? Was he to let them remain in this country to cut the throats of his subjects? This would have been wretched policy indeed; which, had it been adopted, the Dahoman name would have long ago been extinguished, instead of becoming as it is at this day, the terror of surrounding nations.
Weebaigah was his predecessor as King. The Arabs and Europeans seeking slaves created a market for captives which had not existed in earlier times.
Adahoonzou II, Late 18th Century, King of Dahomey, Speech to English Emissaries, Quoted in Richard Burton, Mission To Gelele, Published in America as: “Remarkable Speech of Adahoonzou, King of Dahomey, an Interior Nation of Africa, on Hearing What Was Passing in England Respecting the Slave Trade,” The New York Weekly Magazine, Number 2, 1792
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