-- "It's a tale that makes for a compelling, mostly sympathetic watch. But it requires you go into the theater blind, as I did. And it requires that you stay that way — and stay away from Google after you leave — which I did not." Hollywood has often taken liberties in telling historical dramas; this isn't new. But there's an important distinction to be made between poetic license and historical revisionism. To portray Dahomey as a kingdom of freedom fighters would be akin to producing a movie about the Confederacy as an anti-slavery republic, starring Robert E. Lee as the primary abolitionist." --
From the comments...
-- "Western Europe and North America were the first places in the world to outlaw slavery. The last currently extant country to officially outlaw slavery was Mauritania in 1984." --
WILL HISTORIANS LET THE LUNATIC LEFT REWRITE HISTORY?"This idea of setting the record straight has been known by historians and others who've done the research before the facts became popular. Just take Thomas Sowell as an example. He's been raising the flag about this for decades."
