Contrary to what the movie suggests, Africans did sell other Africans into slavery. That tremendously significant detail cannot be bent or avoided. Nor must it, of course, be weaponized to minimize or dismiss the culpability of European slave traders.
for failing"to represent Black resistance to enslavement."
According to the National Humanities Center at North Carolina University,"The fugitive or freed or 'ex' slave narrators were expected to give accurate details of their experiences within bondage, emphasizing their sufferings under cruel masters and the strength of their will to free themselves.
Try as she may, Davis cannot offer redemption to Africans that captured and sold people by erasing Dahomey's slave trading credentials in the search of a false but feel-good narrative that might appeal to a"universal" audience,Sure, the history of Dahomey, and especially the Agodjie, is exceptional and undeniably fascinating, but as Black people, that shouldn't diminish our shared commitment to disseminate the truth in our stories.
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