What do we really know about the struggle to put an end to the Atlantic Slave Trade? This story is related in this full dramatised feature film by Senegalese feature film director, Moussa Touré, and historian experts. Based on precious archives of different kind - logbooks, letters and diaries, written by slaves, ship owners, slave-traders or colonists – this documentary gathers numerous voices as witnesses of a sad era.
For their “particular” human traits, men, women and children were exhibited and exploited alongside animals all around the world. Personal stories and archives give us the behind-the-scenes from the 19th century until WWII. This documentary exposes the facts and dreadful realities of a forgotten ...