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I did a little digging and...

On November 9th, 1858 the Mobile Press Register printed information stating that captives of the Dahomey tribe were being sold as slaves on the West Coast of Africa. Meager set his sights and his money on these captives.

https://www.biblio.com/blog/2018/05/the-last-slave-ship-the-story-behind-zora-neale-hurstons-barracoon/#

The meeting had an extraordinary subtext. The kingdom of Dahomey had sold hundreds of thousands of slaves to merchants like Francisco de Souza. The ceremony was about celebrating a relationship between two families that was originally forged over slaves.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/an-african-country-reckons-with-its-history-of-selling-slaves/2018/01/29/5234f5aa-ff9a-11e7-86b9-8908743c79dd_story.html

"The kings of Dahomey -- located in Abomey, in present-day Benin -- aggressively captured and sold neighboring tribespeople to the slavers. The practice was quite developed, and went on for some three centuries."

https://www.npr.org/2004/04/12/1833314/slaverys-bitter-legacy-in-w-africa

...making a movie about tribe that sold slaves and regularly practiced human sacrifice and turning it into some black girl magic mess?

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The guide continues in saying that when the king dies his wives are meant to die with him.  The temple, in which I'm allowed walk around, is the tomb of the former king's wives.  While he is said to have had as many as 200 wives, when he died they decided to sacrifice 41 of them to the afterlife.  They were lowered into the basin of the temple, drank a glass of poison and died there below where my feet now stand.

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interesting

not sure how I feel about the storyline but it's def interesting

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Hollywood beem doin this too!

Magnifying nd twisting history into sum fairy tale. Upliftin mess!

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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.

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That was a goid trailer. Hope it's a hit for Viola, since her name is on the Marquee. Looks like they could win a lot of tech awards.