First of all let’s begin with if it’s based on a true story…
Yes and no. The basic framework of the story is inspired by true events, but it is heavily fictionalized and dramatized. The Agojie was an all-female warrior group that did exist and they did protect the kingdom of Dahomey (modern day Benin) in West Africa.
In the book called “Barracoon”, the interview of the last victim of the atlantic trade, Zora Neile Hurston explains in details how those stunning and brave women went to his village in a slave raid by night, beheaded the elders, removed the jaws of the others alive, and took the kids like him with them, alongside the heads and genitals of their family members that they made them carry on the way back.
One third of the people sent to the US were enslaved by those beasts. So by now nearly all african-americans can track back their story to some small village, like Zora Neile Hurston’s, “visited” in a fateful night by the Dahomey.
I cannot believe this movie is not destroyed by the critics and general population. What next? a story about concentration camps where the good guys are the nazis?
The truth doesn’t go well with these new social warriors and doesn’t fit their agenda.
The truth doesn't go well with these new social warriors and doesn't fit their agenda.
