". . .De Sousa continued to market slaves after the trade was abolished in most jurisdictions. He was apparently so trusted by the locals in Dahomey that he was awarded the status of a chieftain." De Sousa was a personal friend of Dahomeyan king Ghezo, who made Félix de Sousa viceroy of Ouidah after he assisted the King in 1818 and brought him to power.” [Wikipedia]
Websites
- Ana Lucia Araujo. “Forgetting and Remembering the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Legacy of Brazilian Slave Merchant Francisco Félix de Souza,” [Chapter 5], analuciaaraujo.org.
- Kevin Sieff. “An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves,” Washington Post, January 29, 2018.
- “Retelling the Story: Martine de Souza, Descendent of Slave Trader,” PBS - The Slave Kingdom.
- Francisco Félix de Souza - Wikipedia