“The Woman King,” a new film starring Viola Davis, makes resistance to slavery its moral compass, then misrepresents a kingdom that trafficked tens of thousands as a vanguard in the struggle against it.
,” is harrowing. Dahomean soldiers with French guns stormed Kossola’s village and beheaded its king, who had refused to pay them tribute. The most ruthless, Kossola remembered, were the. “No man kin be so strong lak de woman soldiers from de Dahomey,” he told Hurston, going on to describe their mutilation of the wounded. The trauma was so fresh even years on that he couldn’t finish the interview. “Kossola was no longer on the porch with me,” Hurston wrote.
Defenders of white supremacy have often exploited these uncomfortable truths. Apologists for the slave trade once used Dahomey’s bloodthirsty reputation to claim that they were rescuing their victims from human sacrifice. Imperialists used similar rhetoric to justify colonial conquest as a form of abolition. In reality, though, African forms of slavery didn’t compare with the racialized industrial variants that Western empires unleashed upon the world.
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