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English: Engraving by William Smith showing William Fort, the British slave fort at Ouidah, Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin), on the Gulf of Guinea. The French and the Portuguese also had their forts nearby. The thick walls of those forts were in dried mud. From a series of engravings titled "Thirty Different Drafts of Guinea" (1727).
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Author William Smith, 1727

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The British fort at Ouidah c. 1727

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