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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silentsahan" data-source="post: 10111568" data-attributes="member: 281066">Human sacrificelook here before say some thing...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice</a>West Africa Human sacrifice was common in West African states up to and during the 19th century. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_customs_of_Dahomey" target="_blank">Annual customs of Dahomey</a>  was the most notorious example, but sacrifices were carried out all  along the West African coast and further inland. Sacrifices were  particularly common after the death of a King or Queen, and there are  many recorded cases of hundreds or even thousands of slaves being  sacrificed at such events. Sacrifices were particularly common in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" target="_blank">Dahomey</a>, in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Empire" target="_blank">Benin Empire</a>, in what is now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana" target="_blank">Ghana</a>, and in the small independent states in what is now southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" target="_blank">Nigeria</a>. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Rummel" target="_blank">R. J. Rummel</a>,  "Just consider the Grand Custom in Dahomey: When a ruler died,  hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of prisoners would be slain. In one  of these ceremonies in 1727, as many as 4,000 were reported killed. In  addition, Dahomey had an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_customs_of_Dahomey" target="_blank">Annual Custom</a> during which 500 prisoners were sacrificed."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#cite_note-73" target="_blank">[74]</a> In the northern parts of West Africa, human sacrifice had become rare  early as Islam became more established in these areas such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_States" target="_blank">Hausa States</a>. Human sacrifice was officially banned in the remainder of West African states only by coercion, or in some cases <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation" target="_blank">annexation</a>, by either the British or French. An important step was the British coercing the powerful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbo" target="_blank">Egbo</a>  secret society to oppose human sacrifice in 1850. This society was  powerful in a large number of states in what is now south-eastern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" target="_blank">Nigeria</a>. Nonetheless, human sacrifice continued, normally in secret, until West Africa came under firm colonial control. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_men" target="_blank">Leopard men</a> were a West African secret society active into mid-1900s that practised <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism" target="_blank">cannibalism</a>. In theory, the ritual cannibalism would strengthen both members of the society as well as their entire tribe.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#cite_note-74" target="_blank">[75]</a> In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika" target="_blank">Tanganyika</a>, the Lion men committed an estimated 200 murders in a single three-month period.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#cite_note-75" target="_blank">[76]</a> The last major centre of human sacrifice was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Empire" target="_blank">Benin Empire</a>  in modern Nigeria. The Benin Empire agreed with the British to prohibit  human sacrifice in the 1890s. However, for five years the rulers  continued human sacrifice on a large scale. After an incident in which  British observers were killed in order to prevent them witnessing human  sacrifice, the British authorities assembled forces to conquer the Benin  Empire. This caused an escalation of human sacrifice as Benin's rulers  sought to protect themselves from Britain by appeasing the gods with  sacrifice. After a brief campaign the Benin Empire was conquered and  human sacrifice suppressed.</blockquote>

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