Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin

Photo by Stanislaw Warwas.

Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin is part of the Tentative list of Benin in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.

The Highlights of the Slave Route in Bénin comprises eights monuments across the country that symbolize the route enslaved took to reach the coast where they embarked on slave ships. Ouidah was one of the main centers for the sale and embarkation of slaves within the framework of the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th century. Here a series of places of memory are linked to that trade, such as the Door of No Return. More inland, for example at Yaka and Fiditi, places of hiding are selected.

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Map of Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin

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Site Info

Full Name
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin
Country
Benin
Added
2021
Type
Cultural
Link
By ID

Site History

2021 Revision

Successor to TWHS La ville d'Ouidah : quartiers anciens et Route de l'Esclave (1996)

2021 Added to Tentative List

2001 Incomplete - not examined

Site Links

Unesco Website: Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin
Travel blog walking the Slave Route in Ouidah

Locations

The site has 8 locations

Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Ouidah - Embarcadère de djègbadji (porte de non retour) (T)
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Abomey Place Singbodji (T)
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Savè : Oké Shabè (mamelle de Savè) Coordonnées de Fiditi (T)
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Dassa-zounmè : Yaka (collines sacrées de Dassa), Coordonnées du parlement (T)
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Kétou : Akaba idénan (porte de Kétou) (T)
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Kétou : Place aux enchères (place Chacha) (T)
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Kétou : Fort portugais (T)
Sites marquants de la Route de l’Esclave au Bénin: Sites du village de Zoungbodji (T)

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