fukk THEIR HISTORY.
It's on a certain stream site
You ain't gotta support Hollywood.
You can make out the black people and the white people.
How was it not accurate? Post a spoiler proving that the movie did not misrepresent the truth. I've read other reviews, and they sure did point out that the movie misrepresented the truth.
I'm talking about the overall history of the slave trade and the different groups selling each other into slavery. Like I said as AAs that is a part of our collective history also. I get why some wouldn't want to see it. I originally just answered a post where someone who didn't see the movie was stating what they deemed facts about how the movie depicted everything about the slave trade when...they didn't see the movie. I never said I had a problem with people not seeing it.
THESE c00nS SOLD MY ANCESTORS
INTO SLAVERY.
So spoiler how it is depicted so those of us who will not see the movie can see if what is being reported about the movie is the truth? Why is that request being avoided by you?
No thanks to you I figured out how to spoiler. I asked you in a post and even sent @CHICAGO a private message asking.
The film crosses the line from reasonable fiction into cynical distortion of history when Nanisca addresses the kingdom on the eve of an important counterattack. Prominently featured in teasers for the movie, her speech links Oyo’s oppression of Dahomey to the suffering of the enslaved in the Middle Passage:
Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King”
Viola Davis’s new feature is a rousing tribute to the world’s only all-female army. But how true is the story it tells?www.newyorker.com
The Woman King portrays the Agojie as liberators. In the film, the Mahi, a people established north of Abomey and allied with the Kingdom of Oyo, are seeking to capture Dahomey’s subjects, to sell them into slavery. But the reality was quite different. The more powerful Dahomean army was often the one that attacked the Mahi. King Gezo and his predecessors led several incursions against the Mahi during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Woman King Softens the Truth of the Slave Trade
The Dahomey had fierce female fighters. They also sold people overseas.slate.com
Did the Kingdom of Dahomey participate in slavery and slave trading?
The Woman King vs. the True Story of Dahomey's Female Warriors
We pit The Woman King vs. the true story of the Kingdom of Dahomey and their female warriors, the Agojie, also known as the Dahomey Amazons.www.historyvshollywood.com
In answering the question, "How accurate is The Woman King?" we learned that in real life, the Dahomey are much more the villains than the heroes. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a bloodthirsty society bent on conquest. It was customary for the Dahomey to return home with the rotting heads and genitals of those they killed in battle. They conquered neighboring African states and took their citizens as slaves, selling many in the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for items like rifles, tobacco, and alcohol. Many of the slaves they sold ended up in America. They also kept some slaves for themselves to work on royal plantations. The business of slavery is what brought Dahomey most of its wealth. For them, it very much came down to either enslave others or become enslaved yourself.
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still watching the film though. i support films with black history that isn't slavery porn
They provided the people for slavery, these c00ns are slave porn producers.
That one person you mentioned is the person I said it was, right? The female General played by Viola Davis. Which I said was the misrepresentation of the truth.
