William Spivey
1 min readMar 19, 2024

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And who was with the Europeans in Japan at that time? Their ships included Black crew members, most of them slaves. They served in a number of other capacities including translators and minstrels. Ther were embedded with the Jesuit priests. Showing the Europeans without Black people is changing history. Not to mention excluding the active slave trad of Japanese and Korean slaves with only the briefest mention of the comfort women who were also Japanese slaves.

The Woman King did acknowledge the Trans Atlantic Slave trade and the fact that some Africans sold others into slavery. We also saw the mixed-race child of a slave and a Portuguese sailor though there was no suggestion of the likely rape that produced him. Can't have everything.

I only ask to see Black people in the settings where they would have been present. Erasing them and the slave trade can only be described as whitewashing.

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William Spivey
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