-^ The Slave Trade 



Dahome, in offering human sacrifices at religious ceremonies, 

 did not approach anywhere near the loss of life and the 

 destruction of homes caused by wars undertaken to supply the 

 slave market. Moreover, it is very probable that much of the 



41. A NATIVE OF THK KRU COAST 



ceremonial bloodshed of Benin, etc., did not come into existence 

 until slave-raiding had accumulated large stocks of serfs, and 

 made the human body a cheaper article of sacrifice than a 

 domestic animal. 



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