Rise and Fall of the Dahomey Kingdom 

Yes, no revisionist history just the truth.

Dahomey

The real name is Danxomè

Dahomey Dahomey Dahomey Dahomey Dahomey Dahomey

No its pronounced dahomay

They were “homies” to no one apparently.

Am just from watching it too 🤣🤣

Produced by yt wmn . It's fiction why would you watch it when those are the people that enslaved your ancestors. Why would you watch that film when some white woman has literally made Africa into one country when it is clearly not no disrespect. Campaign against this film being it's disrespectful to black people the descendants of Slaves.

Eww

Facts , glad someone's paying attention.

don’t you mean ancestors

Respectfully there were slaves of every skin color and culture throughout the history of the developing world. No one escaped this misery.

@richarddraggin4522 I dont disagree, im speaking to a specific group of men, though.

Many African kingdoms and empires often sold slave from other African to European colonies

Which historians? Source? I can't find any

at least from what i heard they said that initially they sell slaves in bulk and parking slaves in a coastal town ( in the Balkans) is gonna run your food stocks dry really quick so in order to save on cash and well not starve they started killing dudes as a " humane" option instead of letting the slaves starve to death. They used the excuse of some sort of ritual killing to give a spiritual justification to the mass killings then it just became part of their greater human sacrifice stuff and became tradition.

Why not just let them go? And recapture them later.

i mean if an african trader shows up to a foreign coastal town and just lets all the slaves go that would not reflect well on them - in the cases of slaves being at home on their own ports its not like the traders can just incense the local lords and let slaves(usually from enemy tribes mind you) just roam about.

@@gabrielnguyen5580 whatever helps evil sleep at night I guess. 🥸

The title alone told me everything I needed to know in order to avoid watching it.

Wealth and prosperity?

West Africa is (I guess "was" is better for this argument) pretty resource poor, and lacking good transportation methods - ie dense jungle, unpredictable weather, not many navigable rivers. Compare this with other countries across the globe who had resources like spices, lumber, precious metals, textiles...unfortunately this was not the case with West Africa. Their greatest resource was humans. People don't like to hear this but that's just the reality of the past. Geography plays a HUGE role in how societies develop and it wasn't necessarily easy living on the west coast of Africa 200/300 years ago so you're going to end up with a more "barbaric" society. This is more than likely why you see human sacrifice. Human sacrifice is most common in stressed environments like this, it's actually pretty fascinating to research.

​@@Sideshowmanatee interesting concept. Regions in West Africa which included Mali and Timbuktu were very well structured and educated back in 1235 CE. Are you referring to further back or regions around those areas? I do know the Dahomaey practiced sacrifice and also slave trade but can't really say all West Africa location were barbaric. Would love to know more on your view an research?

@@desmondkong7581 Doesn't seem that poor when the whole gold trade was around that area, as well as the Songhai empire.

Monetary gain

Most African tribes did. Even tribes in West Africa, where most of us are from, sold their own to the Europeans. 🤷🏾‍♂️

They didn't sell other "black" people. They traded and sold other "People," to other "People" from Portugal who were in the business of trading/selling people into slavery, as these people were viewed by some to be an economic commodity. I don't know what their religious affiliations or beliefs were. I know there were some "Christians" involved,I'd imagine practicioners of Judaism were involved too. However what does it matter what religion those involved were if their going to trade you like a commodity, treat you like chattel property, and strip you of your humanity?

All civiliazations had slaves. Its normal in their time.

@@anotherpointofview222 Muslims were the slave traders and slave owners specially in North and West Africa. Also in slavic region.

The movie didn’t wanted to show the audience that the Dahomey became wealthy thanks to the slave trade

Look at you over here doing research as well 😂, it’s true tho. Video coming soon

True

True and nothing new, slavery has been going on around the world for thousands of years and will continue to do so in one way or another.

Not only did they sell slaves, they fought against the British, you know white people, too continue selling slaves. The British wanted to end slavery, and the Dahomey wanted to keep selling slaves. The woman king is like having Jews make a movie about how great the Nazis are. Or it would be like having a civil war movie where the south fought to end slavery, and Robert e Lee would be the Protagonist.

Brutal!

How many husbands you have had?

@@dushyantsingh7923 three minimum

@@thedreflacko rizzler

You think that enslaving people is ‘cool’ ?

Empires are not defined by size. According to dictionaries such as Cambridge, Empires are formed when a state absorbs more than one nation through coercion or otherwise. The Ashanti Empire for instance conquered and absorbed over 40 states between Ghana, Togo and Ivory Coast.

@@Niani23455 actually empires ARE, Dahomey was a SMALL kingdom based upon slave trading as a mainstay of its "Economy" anything less more and your just making stuff up

@@DeathSithe92 Cambridge, Marriam Webster and many Encyclopedias confirm what I just wrote. It's not about size but the number of states absorbed into a central authority. Ashanti was an Empire because it conquered different states between modern day three countries. Dahomey was once an Empire because they conquered other states until they were conquered in turn by Oyo and lost all their possessions. Benin is not an Empire because it was simply an ethnic state that did not embark on expansionism.

Another thing to note is these places were pretty big they just seemed small on the map

Narrative. That’s why, there’s a Narrative, and it must be obeyed.

you're on the internet. its not hard to look it up.

So they were in slaving people and sacrificing people and trading people for what reason?

Shut up

How do you know?