Hollywood will make movies about black female slave traders, but not about the dead white men who ended slavery.
Sony, spurred by the success of Black Panther, decided to make the ‘Amazon’ Agojie warriors of Dahomey, the inspiration for the fictional female warriors of the comic book, into a movie.
The Woman King had a $50 million budget to bring the real Wakanda to life. It opened at the top of the box office as a black nationalist story of female empowerment about heroic slave traders. While a movie celebrating the Confederacy could never be made, African slave traders who sold hundreds of thousands of slaves and engaged in mass sacrifice are Hollywood heroes.
Despite the fact that the movie had originated with white actress Maria Bello of Coyote Ugly, Gina Prince-Bythewood, its half-black director, made sure “people of color” would be in charge during the production. Prince-Bythewood, who had been given up for adoption by her white birth mother and was raised by a white couple near the vineyards of Monterey, claimed that she cried about her “connection to the material” glorifying one of the worst slave trading tribes in Africa.
The Woman King’s absurd wokeness extended even to Prince-Bythewood claiming that she based the movie’s rape scene on “Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination hearing.” And the media was appropriately fawning.
But then the protests on social media began.
The Dahomeys and the female warriors had sold hundreds of thousands of members of rival tribes into slavery. They had also overseen gruesome mass sacrifice rituals of their slaves.
While black nationalist movies routinely ignore history, this one hit home with some descendants of slaves, especially those from the Bahamas. The slaves sold by the Dahomeys tended to be shipped to Brazil which was notorious for the mass death of black laborers. The slave ships intercepted by the British Navy however occasionally set the slaves free in the Bahamas.
The actual history of the Dahomeys of the ‘Slave Coast’ has sabotaged what was supposed to be a smooth rollout for The Woman King and its mingled tale of female empowerment and black nationalism. But while The Woman King’s feminist warriors were real life villains who helped enslave countless black people, there were real heroes who fought the slave trade.
Unfortunately they were white men. Now long dead and defamed by leftist revisionist historians.
While Black Lives Matter has conducted its own rampage in the UK, it was the British Navy that fought African and Muslim slave traders. In Dahomey and the Dahomeyans, Frederick Forbes, a British naval officer who had come to lobby the monarch to end the slave trade, described “guards of amazons” following in a procession behind a member of the king’s harem using umbrellas to shade her. One such umbrella was “decorated with 148 human jaw bones.”
When wealthy Dahomeyans were dying, they took some of their wives and slaves with them as human sacrifices. Large scale mass sacrifices were practiced, including the brutal and horrifying killings of hundreds to thousands of slaves to honor Dahomey’s monstrous monarchs.
One account from 1860 presented in Parliament described how “a great pit has been dug which is to contain human blood enough to float a canoe. 2000 persons will be sacrificed on this occasion.” Those killed were captives from other tribes where the “young people among these prisoners will be sold into slavery, and the old persons will be killed at the great custom.”
The New York Times reprinted a description of “thousands of people are being sacrificed, (decapitated and afterwards cut in pieces,) and thousands are kept for the slaves.”
This was the real-life Wakanda.
It was the British and the Americans who put an end to this nightmare through colonialism and imperialism. Even before the Civil War, the United States had signed the Webster–Ashburton Treaty (for Daniel Webster) under which the US Navy and the Royal Navy conducted patrols to intercept slave ships.
US Navy efforts to intercept slave ships actually dated back as far as 1820 when Congress passed the James Monroe Piracy Act. Importing slaves had already been banned under the Jefferson administration in 1807, but the Monroe Act equated the slave trade with piracy.
Any American who would “on any foreign shore, seize any negro or mulatto, not held to service or labour by the laws of either of the states or territories of the United States, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall decoy, or forcibly bring or carry, or shall receive, such negro or mulatto on board any such ship or vessel, with intent as aforesaid, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he may be brought or found, shall suffer death.”
Famous naval vessels including the USS Constitution, USS Constellation, and USS Yorktown hunted for and captured slave ships bringing slaves from Africa to this hemisphere. The Navy’s African Squadron cruising off the ‘Slave Coast’ and patrolling as far as Cuba managed to capture over a hundred slave ships.
But it was the British whose embargo of Dahomey and pressure on Brazil and Portugal proved especially effective in shutting down the slave trade. All those dead white men shut down the trade in slaves across the water. Later, the British imperialists fought to stop the land traffic in slaves through Egypt and to the Muslim Middle East. They were successful until the end of colonialism restored the old and new kinds of slave trade bringing cargoes of human beings from Africa and Asia to the Middle East where, as in brutal Islamic tyrannies like Qatar, they are worked to death much as they were before the dreaded days of European imperialism.
These are movies to be made and stories to be told about the British white men, long since dead, who put their lives on the line to stop the slave trade practiced by the heroic African feminist warriors of Dahomey. And those movies will never be made, because they don’t fit the narrative propounded by the 1619 Project and Ibram X. Kendi in which slavery was a European crime against Africa, rather than an Islamic and African tribal crime ended by Europeans.
Specifically, by the European imperialism and colonialism that liberals love to hate.
The scope of the African slave trade was massive. It encompassed much of human history and the known world. There were black slaves in China over a thousand years ago. The Middle East is dotted with large populations of former black slaves and in some cases current slaves. The American role in the slave trade was relatively brief in both historic scope and scale. It’s a sin, but it was certainly not, as Obama put it, our original sin. It was a crime that began in Africa.
Westerners did not invent slavery, but they did more than anyone else to put an end to it.
That’s a truth that cannot be told. And Hollywood would rather make movies celebrating slave traders, as long as they’re black women, than the dead white men who fought to end slavery.
Infidel says
Last night, I saw an interview that Rob Schmitt did w/ Hilary Fordwich, a British analyst who pointed out that one of the biggest slave traders was a man who was the richest man in history, richer than Gates or Bezos is today – Mansa Musa, the ruler of Mali. The people who have heard of him knew him as a devout muslim who once did a major haj to Mecca, and enriched everyone on the way. It is said that he dispensed of so much gold that it was one of the few times in history that the market value of gold actually went down
At any rate, he was involved in the trade of gold, ivory, salt and… 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 slaves. He was one of the major slave traders in the era, himself had over 12,000 slaves and is a damning indictment on both Blacks and muslims. Nonetheless, his role in the historic slave trade is ignored in history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jeGPPXKveM
somehistory says
The Truth is hated and must stay hidden. Blacks and mozlums would not believe it anyway, as it makes them look bad and hypocritical.
gravenimage says
True, Infidel.
somehistory says
Isaiah wrote: “Woe to those saying bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter;, dark is light and light is dark.”
In other words, lying and then lying a whole lot more. Lies are told to hide the Truth that the liars can’t handle.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory, Isaiah 5:20.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
gravenimage says
+1
Anonymous111 says
I have checked on Internet and nowadays, the country of the Dahomey, Bénin, is trying to stop female genital mutilation. In the country side, up to 70% of the women are genitally mutilated. So I would appreciate to hear BLM and the leftist feminists on that topic, especially about the female warriors of the movie who were abused and abusors. On the pictures they look mean. Lets analyse the reasons. Christianity was there to help them.
Infidel says
BLM would probably be fine w/ it, once they knew that muslims require it
Walter Sieruk says
On the topic of the real spirit of Islam toward black people, two Christians who are also authors revealed in the book about the prophet and founder of Islam, Muhammad, the person who all Muslims greatly admire and view and a perfect example for them to emulate was man that “He personally owned two ‘black slave…he endorsed sex slavery as a gift from Allah. In every next page of that same book also inform the reader that “Islam had enslaved more people than any other culture.” [1]
Likewise , a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one the those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam ,Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.”
In fact, Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade is still thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.” Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago, almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [2]
[1] JESUS AND THE JIHADIS by Craig A. Evens and Jeremiah J Johnson , pages 125,125.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel , pages 82, 183.
gravenimage says
Good post, Walter.
david1508 says
This is good, Don Lemon gets schooled by UK scholar after he wants the British royal family to pay reparations. She says fine, start with the African kings who began it. He knows he has been outwitted & doesn’t even try to defend his argument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUZQNpWZ10
Infidel says
Yeah, Rob Schmitt interviewed the same lady about that – see my link above
gravenimage says
African Feminist Slave Traders vs. White Male Slave Liberators
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Fine piece from Daniel Greenfield.
And look at the comments from morons who watched this movie:
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+woman+king&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS861US861&oq=the+woman+&aqs=chrome.0.0i131i355i433i512j46i131i433i512j69i57j0i131i433j0i131i433i512j0i131i433j46i512j69i60.2401j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Click on the link under “reviews” and scroll down. These idiots either don’t have a clue, or worse, are happy to laud *anything* whitewashing African history.
I checked the plot for this thing, and unsurprisingly it is the exact *opposite* of the truth–it shows these thugs as a force for liberating slaves. The bad guys seem to be white slavers–never mind that the actual characters these were based on sold slaves for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Most of Dahomey’s wealth was derived from slaving.
And less then twenty years after this movie is set the British pressured Dahomey to abolish the slave trade, including setting up a naval blockade–at least that shipping slaves out of the country. They could not do anything about domestic slavery.
Scotsman48 says
The female Star of this movie said recently she is ashamed that she starred in the movie Help, where she played a Maid in the Jim Crow South, a great movie and she was great in it, but now she is ashamed of playing the Role and methinks she needed this current movie part to get her street cred back with the blacks and whitey liberals around Hollyweird.
gravenimage says
Yes–“The Help” went from being considered about as politically correct as you could get to being essentially “canceled” in just ten years. And why, since this is about civil rights? Why, because one of the characters is a good-hearted, helpful White person, and that is not allowed now. And yes, it was also a good movie.
Jayell1 says
Whilst a very large proportion of the ‘heroes’ were indeed the crews of the Royal navy ships which chased the slavers, I’m going to be stick my oar in here and claim some credit, because this business was paid for by the British Treasury and involved taking out huge loans to cover the massive cost of this operation (up to 40% of GDP at the time). I and other UK taxpayers were still paying this off until 2015 but the only thing that gives me any comfort there would be the knowledge that our 3% African/Afro-Caribbean minority would also be having to cough up for the sins of their ancestors through their tax bills – assuming they were paying tax, that is, and not just milking our benefits system as seems to be the usual thing.
gravenimage says
Jayell, I laud the British authorities *and* the British public. Britain likely freed more slaves than any other entity in human history. Something to be very proud of!
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
An interesting fact about prominent members of our society and their connection to slavery. Former President Barackkk Obama’s family was on the “supply side” of the slave equation. His great-great-great-great grandpappy held Michelle’s great-great-great-great grandma as a “belly warmer” back in the day. He then sent her to the New World with a bun in the oven. Disgusting people. Absolutely vile. CANCEL THEM!
Also, according to Donald Harris, Heels Up’s pappy, Heels Up’s kin owned over 200 slaves that were used to build their family wealth. CANCEL HER!
gravenimage says
I don’t blame anyone for the actions of their their ancestors. But what *is* important is how a person acts now–and the Obamas and Harris do not have a good record.
Then, I’ve never heard–no can I find any information–on the claim that Barack’s ancestor used Michelle’s ancestor as a sex slave. Citations, please? I know the general history of their families, but if you have something more specific please produce it.
pattyw says
Seriously. Really delusional if anyone does not see the obvious in this movies trailer. 🙄
So DUMB
What I hate is how the entertainment factor of films has all but disappeared.
Go WOKE go broke. One more accomplishment down the drain.
Wouldn’t anyone with any awareness be really embarrassed to star in this film??
Come on Man😜
somehistory says
bill mayer says they should all quit the “wokeness.” sometimes, he’s right.
gravenimage says
+1