Take the 2022 movie “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis, about African female warriors. It portrays white slavers as villains and the female warriors as antislavery avengers, and the film claims it is “Inspired by true events.”The movie has been set-up as a having a historical basis, telling the story of the real-life Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries.… In reality, Dahomey was a notorious slave kingdom, and not the Pan-African freedom fighters as the movie presents them. They enslaved and murdered hundreds of thousands from other tribes and sold them into the slave trade.
Dahomey was renowned as the “Black Sparta,” and was a fiercely militaristic society bent on domination and conquest. Their soldiers struck fear into other tribes all along what is still known as the Slave Coast, as they captured tribespeople from enemy tribes and sold them as slaves.
https://thenewamerican.com/reparations-blackwashing-slavery/
So-called 18th century European slavers never set foot on the beach. For Europeans to set foot on the Gold Coast was to risk a death sentence from all the then-incurable diseases.
Any movie that portrays them as being ashore is historically false.
See: Ancient African kingdoms, Margaret Shinnie, 1968; pp 126, illustrated.
https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-African-Kingdoms-M-Shinnie/dp/0713153342/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VHJ31DKOQ50I&keywords=margaret+Shinnie%2C+ancient+african+kingdoms&qid=1671811563&sprefix=margaret+shinnie%2C+ancient+african+kingdoms%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1
A Short History of Africa; Roland Oliver & J. D. Fage; 1989; pp 302.
https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Africa-Roland-Oliver/dp/0816020892/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671811686&sr=8-4
East Africa: The Search for Unity: Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar; A.J. Hughes; pp 277.
https://www.amazon.com/East-Africa-Search-Tanganyika-Zanzibar/dp/B005R3CBU2/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1671811848&sr=8-1