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Slave trade history: Online criticism surround ‘The Woman King’ movie

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Updated 2023/02/20 at 1:18 AM
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📸  TriStar Pictures


A stiff campaign has erupted on social media calling for movie lovers and the general public to shun the historical Epic film ‘The Woman King’ which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada on September 9.


The film is set around the real-life Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries, Oscar-winner Viola Davis leads the charge as Nanisca, General of the all-female military unit known as the Amazons. She and her daughter Nawi fight the French and neighboring tribes who violated their honor, enslaved their people, and threatened to destroy everything they’ve lived for.


The film has earned $19 million at the box office and still receives overwhelming encomiums from people around the world.

However, the controversy surrounding the film comes from African and Black community critics who point out that it paints the involvement of African slave traders.


The film follows the story of the all-female military unit, known as the Agojie that guarded the West African kingdom of Dahomey from the 17th to 19th centuries.


It’s history but we have to take a license. We have to entertain people. If we just told a history lesson, which we very well could have, that would be a documentary, we didn’t want to shy away from the truth. The history is massive and there are truths on that that are there. If people want to learn more, they can investigate more.”

Julius Tennon, – Producer

The main point of contention by online critics is that the movie seemingly uplifts the women without fully acknowledging that the Dahomey tribe sold other Africans into slavery.

If you’re a Black American that cares about your ancestors #BoycottTheWomanKing

I don’t know @violadavis’s motives for going through with such dishonest and shameful movie but #TheWomanKing let it flop

The Dahomey fought to uphold slavery in Africa, just like the Confederacy pic.twitter.com/zDSARVcx80

— CAPITAL BLACK (@TBMW8) September 18, 2022

#BOYCOTTTHEWOMANKING?

STFU!! I ain’t boycotting shit!! I’m going to go and support my people that are in this film and then educate myself on the Dahomey Tribe… PERIODT!!

African history… ALL of it… IS my history!! pic.twitter.com/drAlFgb4JY

— TabithaSpeaks (@TabithaSpeaks) September 17, 2022

If you ain't boycotting any of hundreds of revisionist movies that romanticize colonialism and colonization by European countries then your black ass better not say #BoycottTheWomanKing around me! pic.twitter.com/wkbwAlyKKw

— T'Chaka (In The Mouth Of Madness) (@InTheMouthOfMa1) September 18, 2022

If black women are edified or empowered by seeing themselves as slave traders, we have a deep, seemingly unreconcilable issue within our community. This is not the type of representation young black women need or should aspire to. #BOYCOTTTHEWOMANKING

— TheROUNDTABLEconvo (@ROUNDTABLEconvo) September 20, 2022

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