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In these so called "stories" did they ask descendents of the the victims of the protagonists to celebrate them? Were they painting dark stories into light ones? These people sound like they have Stockholm syndrome. Its almost a sick joke like the white people who made this movie are mocking African Americans and Carribeans....Love the Dahomey. They are great people. "lets make slavery great again"

you the weirdo, how is this movie good? The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

They go crazy about black women in a movie

@creepin93 There are so many films and shows about black people inflicting pain on other black people. The Wire, American Gangster, City of God to name a few. Should we not tell those stories? Shaka Zulu slaughtered hundreds from neighboring tribes and even his own. Should we not tell his story? Our humanity and history is messy. I understand the want for positive representation because we have gone without it for so long. However I think it’s both freeing and profound to see our humanity explored in all its forms. I don’t think we should shy away from telling a story just because the subject is complicated.

@@katarinasabrina the issue is the misrepresentation and exaggerations. to me it looks more like Marvel Comic book than an accurate historical movie.

Don't forget delusional. The true story is not see glamorous. This movie was written by a white woman, the lie is pushed by a black leading woman.

🤡🌎

THE REEL GOAT 🎞📽🎬

Nope Whoopi Goldberg is

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯.

Lupita Nyong'o is the TRUE GOAT for turning down this movie after learning the history of the people it was based off of, and she's not even an ADOS. While Viola Davis claims to be an ADOS and she played a romanticized character of a Dahomey General (for a quick payday) .... REALLY, she's a GOAT?

hahahahahaha facts... The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

Sadly though In real life the Dahomey fought until the end to keep capturing and selling other African tribes as their primary business. The King called it the source of their peoples glory. The last slaves imported to America were black Africans captured and sold into slavery by the Dahomey. They were the villains of history as much as anyone involved in the Atlantic slave trade and had to have their ports blockaded by British ships in order to stop them from exporting African slaves they captured. Viola is portraying the equivalent of a Nazi general in actual history. Look it up yourself.

Sadly though In real life the Dahomey fought until the end to keep capturing and selling other African tribes as their primary business. The King called it the source of their peoples glory. The last slaves imported to America were black Africans captured and sold into slavery by the Dahomey. They were the villains of history as much as anyone involved in the Atlantic slave trade and had to have their ports blockaded by British ships in order to stop them from exporting African slaves they captured. Viola is portraying the equivalent of a Nazi general in actual history.

@@amostlyreasonableguy please shut up and go back to your Christopher Columbus. We don't care

She acting in a movie about Africans written by a white woman. Lol

are you a troll??

You part of the problem .

God brother.

We know you white.

The aha moment was the awakening of the moral injustices and reimagining a different social construct for the main character who had a seat at the table, her actions finally convinced the king that they should be saving people not selling them! It’s a work of fiction that is applicable to leadership today. The movie isn’t celebrating slave traders it’s exposing the intimate challenges of leadership and corruption with the hope of redemption of one woman who dared to risk it all! Go see the movie!

The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

"sister" cinnamon is a sale out The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

@@creepin93 and it's sell*

@@brothercinnamon2479 sale out you dont disagree with being called sister huh...

Nah, she’s legit portraying the historical equivalent of a Nazi general. The Dahomey specifically were absolute villains, making the bulk of their money off of capturing other African tribes and selling them for a profit. The King called it the glory of his people. Look up the historical quotes. They wouldn’t stop enslaving other Africans, both to sell to Europeans and to keep for themselves. They were only finally stopped from making money off of it when the British blockaded their ports. There isn’t any group that was worse to black Africans than the Dahomey. It’s the most bizarre choice for a historical group to make heroines out of. It would be like making movie heroes out of people who captured other Jewish people for the Nazis

@@creepin93 what I am is not the point of our discourse. Your intellectual tank is empty.

The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

You will NOT be disappointed, it was great!

It's a beautiful movie. A very simple story effectively told

Bringing snacks is the only way

@@renewilson2540 seen it Friday, was worth it.

Dahomey was organized for war, not only to expand its boundaries but also to take captives as slaves. Slaves were either sold to the Europeans in exchange for weapons or kept to work the royal plantations that supplied food for the army and court. The Dahomey Kingdom became known to European traders at this time as a major source of slaves in the slave trade at Allada and Whydah. In 1851-1852, the British imposed a naval blockade on the ports of Dahomey in order to force them to end the slave trade. In January 1852, Ghezo accepted a treaty with the British ending the export of slaves from Dahomey. The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. There were two Franco-Dahomean wars, which ended in 1894 with France taking over. The Kingdom of Dahomey eventually became French Dahomey, a colony, ten years later. This movie is supposed to be based on a true story… But the depiction is not true! Hollywood is crazy! All they care about is ‘female empowerment’. How pathetic. This movie is a sham!

The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

@@creepin93 I was aware of this and was curious on how they’d handle that important factor of the Dahomey story. I feel they did it well and in a way that allows us to still celebrate this tribe of female warriors, some who were taken from their own tribes by the Dahomey. It’s hollywood, so you can only fit so much info, so at least it opens the door for folks to learn more. You should see the movie. 🤷🏾‍♀️

@@NikiGolightly you know the "amazon" females were a part of the bigger army right? this is what i mean the movie is misleading and propping up a treacherous tribe that doesn't deserve a movie to celebrate them.

@@NikiGolightly except the movie portrays it like they realized past leaders got it wrong. In real life the Dahomey fought until the end to keep capturing and selling other African tribes as their primary business. The King called it the source of their peoples glory. The last slaves imported to America were black Africans captured and sold into slavery by the Dahomey. They were the villains of history as much as anyone involved in the Atlantic slave trade and had to have their ports blockaded by British ships in order to stop them from exporting African slaves they captured.

Sadly though In real life the Dahomey fought until the end to keep capturing and selling other African tribes as their primary business. The King called it the source of their peoples glory. The last slaves imported to America were black Africans captured and sold into slavery by the Dahomey. They were the villains of history as much as anyone involved in the Atlantic slave trade and had to have their ports blockaded by British ships in order to stop them from exporting African slaves they captured. Viola is portraying the equivalent of a Nazi general in actual history.

@@amostlyreasonableguy They don't want to hear it.

Black women want fiction to add to their delusions. Fact is the warrior class women were kings guard and got killed is ma matter of hours. Also the women fought to KEEP slavery going because their country was rich from it.

The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

It did NOT disappoint!

@@renewilson2540 bet it didn't fail at telling a made up story about a failure of an army.

@@renewilson2540 written by a white woman, pushed by a lead black women. Dehomey were slave trader and eventually destroyed by the French in a single battle. Movies like this will convince black women to be masculine and compete with thier potential husbands. 1 of 4 black women will marry.

a great movie about a tribe who sold other blacks to europeans?! The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

@@creepin93 Thank you very much for the history lesson, I will definitely do additional research of my own. My people are actually from the Abeokuta which you mentioned ( I'm currently here right now ) and the place where people seek refuge was/is called Olumo Rock. Olumo Rock is large stone mountain that gave many rooms like caves where people his during civil wars and while hiding from the slave catchers. It's unfortunate that some of our own people played many roles in the Atlantic Slave Trades, not just the Dahomey people. There was a woman called Madam Tinubu who made great fortune for herself and her family from Slave Trades and is greatly celebrate today because not too many knows our history. Those soldiers didn't have an option whether to join that army or not, if they refused, they would be executed. Regardless of the backstory, I am looking forward to seeing it. I think this is a great story that needed to be told and I hope more African nations will be motivated and giving chance to tell their stories.

@@557Deola When you do you own research you will found what was said above isn't true. Don't believe these VERY educated pro African Diaspora actors would NOT have researched these characters. Half of the main actors are straight from the mother land. We know why you guys are going so hard in the comments against this powerful movie. It won't work, lol.

@@renewilson2540 at this point, I think bots are leaving these comments trying to hate on the film. The film was good

@@renewilson2540 nah, she’s legit portraying the historical equivalent of a Nazi general. The Dahomey specifically were absolute villains, making the bulk of their money off of capturing other African tribes and selling them for a profit. The King called it the glory of his people. Look up the historical quotes. They wouldn’t stop enslaving other Africans, both to sell to Europeans and to keep for themselves. They were only finally stopped from making money off of it when the British blockaded their ports. There isn’t any group that was worse to black Africans than the Dahomey. It’s the most bizarre choice for a historical group to make heroines out of. It would be like making movie heroes out of people who captured other Jewish people for the Nazis.

I didn't know She directed Beyond the Lights. That just goes to show, her artistic consistency and versatility. More power to her.

I fully agree with you ! And I love Beyond the lights so much

You ain’t neva lied!!!! 😂😂😂

oh so since other movie misrepresent facts its okay to FOLLOW SUIT?!

@@creepin93 it’s a Hollywood movie. No movie based on history is 100% accurate. What’s important is we support this.

@@jruedas81 first of no movie ever took the villains(slave HUNTERS) to portray them as heroes. NEVER! secondly this movie is intentionally 0% accurate due to turning the story upside down. 3rd, you're right that this is another HOLLYWOOD flick because it USES oppressed peoples history for PROFIT. support the real truth not made up fairy tales starting nazi's or dahomey

@@creepin93 have you seen the movie? Doesn’t sound like it. They address all of that.

@@jruedas81 i can not support financially a movie based on propping up a tribe known for serving europeans portrayed as anything else! and how can you?

I want to see her in an action movie. It's silly that men are campaigning for Ana De Armas to be in the next James Bond movies when she can barely fight. She was getting her arse handed to her in The Grey Man.

Some black women try to “out strong” each other because we’re constantly being pit against each other, so it’s natural instinct. Light skin vs dark skin, masculine vs feminine, long hair vs short hair, and so on… There are also just as many black women(if not more) that champion each other! That doesn’t get talked about enough. I don’t like when people continue to perpetuate this narrative that black women are “aggressive” and can’t get along.🤦🏽‍♀️ That doesn’t tell the whole story.

@@moniquej369 No one necessarily does the pitting. We do that to ourselves. It seems to me it’s our low self esteem as a people. And we equate our self worth through what we have or don’t have. And it’s also an American thing as well.

Amen !!! We are our worst enemy. That narrative has got to change for our survival.

there is no 'reality' in that movie... everything has been twisted....

@@silveriorebelo2920 you haven't seen it. get off the sheep train.

The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.[1] European visitors extensively documented the kingdom and it became one of the most familiar African nations to Europeans.[2] The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,[3] significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun.[4] The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.[5][6] Other remaining captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.[2][6] The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast.[7] During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey.[8] Dahomey later began experiencing territorial tensions with France which led to the First Franco-Dahomean War in 1890, resulting in French victory. The kingdom finally fell in 1894 when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by France in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, leading to the country being annexed into French West Africa as the colony of French Dahomey.

It was fabulous!

Except the movie makes it seem like they realized that past leaders got it wrong about slavery when In actual history they fought until the very end to keep capturing and enslaving other Africans as their primary industry. They were fought by the French because they literally wouldn’t stop invading and capturing other tribes and selling them into slavery and then the British blockaded their ports after they exported the last slaves America got. That’s the only reason it stopped. The Dahomey specifically were the villains of history, like the confederate south but more bloodthirsty. So it’s a really strange group of people to create something to flex as heroes within a movie. Like making movie heroes out of people who in real life captured other Jewish people for the Nazis.

I do not care who Hollyweird put in front of this movie, I will not knowingly honor those instrumental to the african slave trade. Why was the historical reference necessary? Why?!

Good question..... spread the word