Women served as nurses during the civil war.They were tasks with cleaning and bandaging wounded soldiers, feeding the servicemen in the fields of war, assisting surgeons in performing operations on victims of war, taking medicines to soldiers and performing other medical procedures such as giving first aid to victims.However some women pretended to be men in disguised form and fought in unions.
The Atlantic slave trade had a substantial and deleterious impact in Benin, causing the depopulation of certain areas as well as a general militarization of society.
