Getting the Full Story
Not all history has a Hollywood ending. In fact, it hardly ever does. Thanks to Professor Araujo and scholars everywhere for helping us see the larger story and the larger history... |
On African queens and rulers: Njinga of Angola
— Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD (@araujohistorian) September 19, 2022
Africa’s Warrior Queen by historian Linda M. Heywood. Njinga is a seventeenth-century queen of West Central Africa, region from where most enslaved Africans were deported to the Americas #slaveryarchive #TheWomanKing #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/IM1m2wqsld
Dahomey conquered the Ouidah & the Bight of Benin in 1728. Slave exports from the region dropped by 70% after Dahomey's conquest, while it increased everywhere else. Explain how Dahomey manage to traffic 1 million Africans into Slavery https://t.co/bBA5Pdo05w
— Great House (@xspotsdamark) September 17, 2022
As we discuss #TheWomanKing Art historian Suzanne Blier warns that image below: "represents the performance attire created in Germany for their European performances in zoological parks and other contexts beginning in 1890. #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/hyR9tKuXRW
— Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD (@araujohistorian) September 21, 2022
What ‘The Woman King’ gets wrong — and right — about Dahomey’s warriors by @AfricaHarvard faculty affiliate Suzanne Blier https://t.co/NUvdTFTTRD
— Harvard Center for African Studies (@AfricaHarvard) September 29, 2022
‘I can change the way Black women are seen’: Viola Davis on stereotypes, success and playing a warrior https://t.co/LMO4oedA0Y
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 10, 2022
Ellen E Jones
Descendant: new documentary film on @netflix tells story of descendants of Africans brought to the US on board of CLOTILDA, last known slave ship to transport enslaved Africans from Ouidah (Dahomey) in 1860 #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians #TheWomanKing https://t.co/ROYA6vBkRy
— Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD (@araujohistorian) September 30, 2022
Ooo. Orange for the subtitle. Sweet. pic.twitter.com/jEtB0aqtWD
— Dr. Alex Gil 🏳️ (@elotroalex) October 1, 2022
“The part of the movie that we love is also the part of the movie that is terrifying to Hollywood, which is, it’s different” Davis tells Keegan..[Hollywood..] likes it when women are pretty & blond...All of these women are dark. And they’re beating…men” https://t.co/bXkclwLu5i
— Reighan Gillam (@Reighangillam) October 4, 2022
The #Descendant airing on @Netflix tells the story of the descendants of Africans captured by the army of Dahomey and transported to Alabama on the slave ship Clotilda in 1860, 47 years after events narrated in #TheWomanKing #slaveryarchive #twittestorians https://t.co/pPosShFmrJ
— Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD (@araujohistorian) October 25, 2022
Nawawi Sani-Deen