This is correct. I am currently reading the story of the Last Cargo slave and he (Kassola, Cudjo Lewis, the last cargo) mentioned the Dahomey King/Empire how they would capture slaves. He, the last cargo, Kassola, was capture by the Dahomey King who beheaded Kassola's King in his hometown who tried to prevent the attack on his village. The king from Kassola's hometown didn't want to be brought back to Dahomey to be a slave so they beheaded him, by one of the Dahomey women warriors. The Dahomey Empire had women warriors who would round up the Africans who was trying to escape and behead them. Beheading the ppl was like a bragging right or something, (I may need to re-read that part again) they would carry the heads back to Dahomey, each men sometimes carrying 2 to 3 heads, along with the ppl that they captured. They had guns when they would raid these places along with machetes and knives
That's a great book to get, every black person should get it, The Last Cargo, the dude, Kassola really goes into depth on how the Dahomey King would capture and sell slaves. There were newspaper articles that the king of Dahomey put out that reached all the way over to the Americas, all the way down to Alabama that stated the Dahomey King was selling slaves, even after the end of the Trans-slave trade was announced by Britain, US and France. The Dahomey King still wanted to sell slaves, also cacs that were in Africa, would ignite the kings to start wars with neighboring tribes to get slaves, that played a big part as well. The Dahomey King would sell the slaves, the cacs couldn't dock their ships on the coast, so the ships would be out in the ocean, along the boarders, so they would have to use small life-size boats to transport the slaves off the shore to the ships, they would load the slaves, and the Dahomey King would send some of his warriors to recapture the slaves from the cacs on some getting over type shyt, some times it worked, some times it didn't, but most of the time those that were captured were sold.
But that book goes into real dark details on how The Dahomey Kings did their thing.