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Paroles de Nègres (2021)

Name: Paroles de Nègres
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-11-14T16:20:23+01:00

Documentary | 78 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 78 minuten

Alternative title: Words of Negroes

Country: France

Directed by: Sylvaine Dampierre

IMDb score: 6,3 (19)

Releasedate: 26 October 2021

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Paroles de Nègres plot

In 1842, Sébastien died after months of neglect in a cell in Guadeloupe, on the island of Marie-Galante. The boss of the sugar plantation where he had to work as a slave suspected him of poisoning livestock. It became a lawsuit, the slave owner was acquitted. Some 175 years later, documentary maker Sylvaine Dampierre has the testimonies from the Sébastien case spoken again, this time by employees of the current sugar factory Grande Anse on Marie-Galante. Much has changed, but there are also uneasy similarities with the nineteenth century.