History of the Kingdom of Dahomey novel "The Last of the African Kings" (1992) similarly focuses on Behanzin's resistance and his exile to the Caribbean. History of the Kingdom of Dahomey The History of the Kingdom of Dahomey spans 300 years from around 1600 until 1904 with the rise of the Kingdom of Dahomey as a major power on the Atlantic coast of modern-day Benin until French conquest. The kingdom became a major regional power in the 1720s when it conquered the coastal kingdoms of Allada and Whydah. With control over these key coastal cities, Dahomey became a major center in the Atlantic Slave Trade until
In Dahomey Homestead refuses to continue to support Punkerton's acts, and the show culminates with a spectacular cakewalk. In other sources, "In Dahomey" is described as following the attempts of two con men (played by Bert Williams and George Walker) charged with recovering a lost heirloom to be flipped for profit. The search for the heirloom crosses paths with a colonized society that looks to settle in Dahomey. The plot of the original source-text differs according to many sources, but all agree there were three primary locales in "In Dahomey": Boston, Gatorville (Florida) and Dahomey. A recovered New York Theatre program printed