Also known as: Bight of Benin, Porto Novo, Whidah, Whydah, Ouidah
Last updated: April 26, 2026
The Bight of Benin was the oldest and most significant African slave-trading region for Saint-Domingue, providing the Arada, Fon, and Nago peoples who brought Vodou's foundational religious traditions across the Middle Passage and shaped the colony's cultural and revolutionary character.
Bight Of Benin
Dahomey dominated much of the Bight of Benin slave trade.
Bight Of Benin
Bight Of Benin
The Bight of Benin supplied many of the Fon, Ewe, and Yoruba enslaved people in Saint-Domingue.
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The Bight of Benin was a major origin point for enslaved Africans in the Atlantic trade.
The Bight of Benin was the Atlantic exit point through which Dahomean captives entered the slave trade.
The Bight of Benin was a major embarkation point for enslaved people on the Middle Passage.
Bight Of Benin
Bight Of Benin
Bight Of Benin
The religious traditions of the Bight of Benin region were foundational to Haitian Vodou.
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