Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey by Stanley B. Alpern

Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey

Stanley B. Alpern

280 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta, ' residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense...

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