Benin Archives and Libraries

Archives
National Archives of Benin Route de Missérété, opposite the Regional School of Magistracy Ouando/ Porto-Novo, Benin PO Box: 629 Porto-Novo, Benin Telephone: +229 20 24 66 07 Website

French Colonial Archives
National Archives of Overseas (ANOM) 29 chemin du moulin de Testas - CS50062 13182 Aix-en-Provence CEDEX 5 France Telephone: + 33 (0)4 42 93 38 50 E-mail: anom.aix@culture.gouv.fr
 * Overseas National Archives, Dahomey (now Benin)

Endangered Archives
Slow Death for Slavery in the National Archives of Benin (EAP1055)
 * This project intends thus to digitise the early colonial records dealing with the end of slavery. The formal abolition of slavery by the French colonial power did not directly lead to the end of slavery overnight as some of the masters tried to retain a form of spatialand contractual control over them by turning their former slaves into tenants and servants. Many former slavers sued their former masters who were trying to reassert their domination over them during the early colonial period.

Libraries
National Library of Benin (Bibliothèque Nationale du Bénin) 401 Porto-Novo Porto-Novo, Benin Telephone: (229) 22 25 85 Email: [mailto:bn.benin@bj.refer.org bn.benin@bj.refer.org] Facebook: National Library of Benin Facebook Website: National Library of Benin