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Comment by Parrhesia on July 28, 2022 at 4:35pm

If one wonders where such brutality could come from...Here's another new movie "The Woman King".  Based on a true story of the Dahomey Amazons, an all-female military regiment in Dahomey (now Benin), West Africa.  Of course, I doubt the movie will touch on the fact that Dahomey thrived on the sale of slaves to the Europeans or the history of King Gezo of Dahomey.  Untold numbers of Bahamian families today are the descendants of the slaves caught by Gezo and his Amazon all female army, then sold to the Europeans for plantations in Cuba, Brazil and America. 

When King Gezo, the great slave King of the Dahomey, died in 1858, some 800 slaves were massacred in his memory.  800 captured Africans were contributed, as ceremonial tribute, to the deceased King, by other African slave dealers from the Kingdom of Whydah, in what is now southern Benin, West Africa.  The tradition of human slaughter, the “grand custom,” was one held in the highest esteem by King Gezo. It showed his great power over the life and death of others. Hundreds would be massacred at a time as tribute to some arbitrary event named by the King.  

What is largely missing from the historical recorded on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, is the history of blood and the brutality visited on weaker African tribes by stronger, slave catcher tribes.

In 1860, two years after the death of King Gezo, his son, King Badahung, the new King of Dahomey decided that in honour of his father’s memory, a “grand custom” must be made. A “grand custom” was the ceremonial sacrifice of hundreds of slaves. A pit was dug in order to collect enough blood to float a canoe. Some 2,000 persons were to be sacrificed, they were to be beheaded and thrown into the pit to bleed out.

800 Slaves Sacrificed in Tribute on the Death of GEZO the Great Sla...

Comment by steve on July 28, 2022 at 11:57am

Here's the printed news from 2019, just look at the photos of these fkn  animals, they have no place in civilized society and I for one am sick and tired of these creatures being handled with kids gloves and never being held accountable due to their skin color.

Steve 

https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Five-involved-in-slayings-of-young...