Archibald Dalzel: Slave Trader and Historian of Dahomey
Archibald Dalzel: Slave Trader and Historian of Dahomey
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阿奇博尔德·达尔泽尔：奴隶贩子和达荷美历史学家
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10.1017/s0021853700006083
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1966
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《达荷美史》的作者阿奇博尔德·达尔泽尔1740年出生于苏格兰。由于无法从事他所接受的医疗专业培训，他于1763年进入非洲商人贸易委员会（非洲委员会）担任外科医生，并被派往西非的海岸角。在那里，他开始了奴隶贸易，这是他唯一稳定的工作，直到1811年去世。尽管在那个时期，从奴隶贸易中获利显然很容易，尽管达尔采尔在他的冒险中投入了精力和乐观，但他从来没有成功过。他两次被宣布破产，最后失望而死。他留给世人的唯一丰碑，就是他那本杰出的《达荷美史》。
Archibald Dalzel, the author of The History of Dahomey, was born in Scotland in 1740. Unable to practise the medical profession in which he had been trained, he entered the service of the Committee of Merchants Trading to Africa (African Committee) in 1763 as Surgeon, and was posted to Cape Coast in West Africa. There he started slave trading, which remained his only stable employment until his death in 1811. Despite the apparent ease with which profit could be gained from the slave trade during that period, and despite the energy and optimism which he put into his ventures, Dalzel was never a success. He was twice declared a bankrupt and died a disappointed man. The only monument which he left behind and by which he is still remembered is his brilliant compilation on the History of Dahomey.