Editing Dahomey (section)

===Brazil===
In 1750, the Kingdom of Dahomey sent a [[diplomatic mission]] to [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]], [[State of Brazil|Portuguese colony of Brazil]] in order to strengthen diplomatic relations with this [[Portuguese colonization of the Americas|Portuguese colony]] following an incident which led to the expulsion of Portuguese-Brazilian diplomatic authorities in 1743.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Macedo|first=José Rivair|date=2018|access-date=September 14, 2023|title=The Embassy of Daomé in Salvador (1750): Diplomatic Protocols and the Political Affirmation of a State in Expansion in West Africa|url=https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/rbea/article/view/86065/52373|journal=Revista Brasileira de Estudos Africanos|language=en|volume=3|issue=6|doi=10.22456/2448-3923.86065|issn=2448-3923|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Other Dahomey missions were sent to Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1795 to 1805 with the purpose of strengthening relations with Portuguese colonial authorities and slave buyers residing in Brazilian territory, ensuring that they maintained an interest in purchasing enslaved people supplied by Dahomey rather than rival kingdoms.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tadeu Arantes |first1=José |title=Study highlights the role of diplomatic relations between Dahomey and Brazil in the slave trade |url=https://agencia.fapesp.br/study-highlights-the-role-of-diplomatic-relations-between-dahomey-and-brazil-in-the-slave-trade/36328/ |work=AGÊNCIA FAPESP |language=en}}</ref> It is also recorded that in 1823, the Kingdom of Dahomey formally recognized [[Independence of Brazil|Brazil's independence]], making it one of the first political [[State (polity)|entities]] in the world to do so.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guizelin |first=Gilberto da Silva |date=2015 |access-date=September 14, 2023 |title=A última embaixada de um monarca africano no Brasil: Manoel Alves Lima, um embaixador do Reino de Onim na corte de D. Pedro I |trans-title=The last embassy of an African monarch in Brazil: Manoel Alves Lima, an Ambassador of the Kingdom of Onim at the court of D. Pedro First |url=https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/54813/36152 |journal=Anos 90 - Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História |volume=22 |issue=42 |doi=10.22456/1983-201X.54813 |language=pt-br |doi-access=free }}</ref>

The [[Atlantic slave trade]] between Brazil and Dahomey remained intense even under pressure from the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] for its [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolition]]. [[Francisco Félix de Sousa]], a [[Slavery|former enslaved]] person and later a major [[Slave-trader|slave trader]] in the Dahomey region, became a politically influential figure in that kingdom after the ascent of [[Ghezo|Guezo]] to the Dahomean throne. He was granted the honorary title of Chachá, vice-king of Ajudá, and a monopoly on the exportation of slaves.{{refn|Brazilian historiography has attributed the primacy of this recognition to the [[United Provinces of the Río de la Plata]], also in 1823.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Antunes de Oliveira |first1=Felipe |last2=Pavan Lopes |first2=Lucas |date=2023 |access-date=September 14, 2023 |title=A Argentina e a independência do Brasil: o reconhecimento tardio de um reconhecimento pioneiro |trans-title=Argentina and the Independence of Brazil: The belated recognition of an early recognition |url=https://cebri.org/revista/br/artigo/81/a-argentina-e-a-independencia-do-brasil-o-reconhecimento-tardio-de-um-reconhecimento-pioneiro |journal=CEBRI-Revista |language=pt-br }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=RFi |date=September 7, 2022 |access-date=September 14, 2023 |title=O primeiro país a reconhecer a Independência do Brasil foi também o primeiro a quem declarou guerra |trans-title=The first country to recognize the Independence of Brazil was also the first one to declare war on it |url=https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2022/09/07/o-primeiro-pais-a-reconhecer-a-independencia-do-brasil-foi-tambem-o-primeiro-a-quem-declarou-guerra.ghtml |publisher=G1 |language=pt-br }}</ref>|group=nb}}