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"The Last Amazon of Dahomey" is a play in the Booker Prize-winning novel of 2019 called Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo. The Ahosi are featured in the 2021 graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez.
During the Amazon rubber boom, indigenous people from different regions of the Amazon suffered similar atrocities as those perpetrated against the Putumayo's indigenous nations. The Peruvian government was aware of instances barbaric crimes and slave raids against indigenous people along the Marañon and Ucayali Rivers as early as 1903 and 1906.
Departure of the Amazons, by Claude Deruet, 1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The origin of the word is uncertain. [10] It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym *ha-mazan-'warriors', a word attested indirectly through a derivation, a denominal verb in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss "ἁμαζακάραν· πολεμεῖν.
The Peruvian Amazon Company, also known as the Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co., [4] was a rubber boom company that operated in Peru during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Headquartered in Iquitos , it gained notoriety for its harsh treatment of Indigenous workers in the Amazon Basin , whom its field forces subjected to conditions akin to slavery .
Love Slaves of the Amazons is a 1957 American adventure film written, produced and directed by Curt Siodmak and starring Don Taylor, Gianna Segale and Eduardo Ciannelli. Plot [ edit ]
On March 27, 2017, it was reported that Amazon Video had given the production a script-to-series commitment. [7] On June 5, 2018, it was announced that Amazon given the production a formal greenlight and that Jenkins would direct all eleven episodes of the series. [3] In June 2019, Nicholas Britell announced he would serve as composer on the ...
The Amazon rubber cycle or boom (Portuguese: Ciclo da borracha, Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsiklu da buˈʁaʃɐ]; Spanish: Fiebre del caucho, pronounced [ˈfjeβɾe ðel ˈkawtʃo]) was an important part of the socioeconomic history of Brazil and Amazonian regions of neighboring countries, being related to the commercialization of rubber and the genocide of indigenous peoples.
Polyergus rufescens is a species of slave-making ant native to southern Europe and parts of Asia, commonly referred to as the European Amazon ant or as the slave-making ant. It is an obligatory social parasite , unable to feed itself or look after the colony and reliant on ants of another species to undertake these tasks.