Abstract: For the period ca. 1670-1727, major towns in the kingdom of Hueda (Whydah) served as regional trading centers for captives bound for the Middle Passage. Our knowledge of the regional and international centrality of Hueda comes primarily from the accounts of European traders. From their primary vantage points at the Huedan coastal trading entrepôt at Ouidah and nearby palatial capital at Savi, these traders richly documented local economic dynamics and political turmoil. However, their accounts and later historical explorations drawing from them are less comprehensive in describing the broader extent of the kingdom. This article presents new archaeological data generated from the town surrounding Savi and sites from its immediate hinterland. It argues that using archaeological data to elucidate the local historical processes emanating from the larger urban area surrounding Savi and the nearby rural countryside is critical to a fuller understanding of Hueda’s meteoric rise as well as its spectacular collapse.