Few sites of the transatlantic slave trade have proved richer for the recovery of biographical data about Africans sold to the Americas than the hinterland and littoral of the Bight of Benin and Brazil, especially Bahia. One reason is the richness of sources for these regions. Another is the long and superb tradition of scholarship that has used these sources to document, analyse, and interpret Afro-Bahian history and culture. Two short biographies presented in this chapter will illustrate the kinds of information it has been possible to recover about Yoruba-speaking Africans sold into the Bahian slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century, when that branch of the commerce reached its height. In Bahia, these slaves were generally identified as Nagô. The first biography takes as its subject a woman who is still remembered today as an important religious leader; the second, a man who was at once a victim of the transatlantic slave trade and a participant in it. Both of these historical actors ultimately made important contributions to the development of the diaspora connecting West Africa, Brazil, and other parts of the world.