Yoruba Diaspora

Verger, Pierre, Trade Relations Between the Bight of Benin and Bahia, 17th to 19th Century (Ibadan: University of Ibadan Press, 1976), 421-423, 568-575.

This ship list derives from Pierre Fatumbi Verger's footnotes on slave voyages leaving the Bight of Benin for Bahia. Verger (4 November 1902, in Paris – 11 February 1996, in Salvador, Brazil) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifà) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa. Verger continued to study and document his chosen subject right until his death in Salvador, at the age of 93. He was a professor at the Federal University of Bahia since 1973. He was responsible for the establishment of the African-Brazilian Museum in Salvador; and served as visiting professor at the University of Ifé in Nigeria, too. The non-profit Pierre Verger Foundation in Salvador, which he established to continue his work, holds more than 63,000 photos and negatives, as well as his papers and correspondence. For more information see Fundação Pierre Verger http://www.pierreverger.org/en/homepageen-2.html.