so apparently that new Viola Davis movie is about a tribe that sold slaves...

Started by yummy, July 09, 2022, 03:29:29 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.


yummy

Quote from: Amazing on July 10, 2022, 03:15:23 AM
You have to bear in mind that this written history is white washed and most likely inaccurate and prejudiced.

They often depicted Africans as inhumane and immoral to justify slavery and colonialism.

We should always read history written by whites with a huge heap of salt imo.

Zora Neale Hurston wrote a book called "Barracoon" where she interviewed the last living survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, a man named Cudjo Lewis, and in the book he very plainly describes being captured and sold by the Dahomey tribe

https://medium.com/grimhistorian/cudjo-lewis-one-of-the-last-recorded-slave-ship-survivors-74f9a47baac9


Barbie Dangerous

Quote from: yummy on July 10, 2022, 11:52:06 AM
Quote from: Amazing on July 10, 2022, 03:15:23 AM
You have to bear in mind that this written history is white washed and most likely inaccurate and prejudiced.

They often depicted Africans as inhumane and immoral to justify slavery and colonialism.

We should always read history written by whites with a huge heap of salt imo.

Zora Neale Hurston wrote a book called "Barracoon" where she interviewed the last living survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, a man named Cudjo Lewis, and in the book he very plainly describes being captured and sold by the Dahomey tribe

https://medium.com/grimhistorian/cudjo-lewis-one-of-the-last-recorded-slave-ship-survivors-74f9a47baac9
:diddraispoot: