Slavery is the shared dark side of the history of many nations around the globe. But apart from the accounts of our schoolbooks and some memorable dates, what do we really know about the struggle to put an end to the slave trade? Join us, as we look at disturbing truths about slave breeding farms and slavery.

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Slavery

The video you are seeing is the story of slavery-related in a full drama, by Senegalese feature film director, Moussa Touré, and historian experts. During the second half of the 19th century, slavery and the trade linked to it were theoretically forbidden. The concept of abolitionism was spread all around the colonies of various empires. However, the slave trade continued and brought even more injustice and violence, in a world at the dawn of a major change.

Based on precious archives of different kinds – logbooks, letters, and diaries, written by slaves, shipowners, slave traders, or colonists – this documentary gathers numerous voices as witnesses of a sad era. By using the aesthetics and the codes of the fiction, as well as a tangible and creative scenario, this exceptional one-off will become a reference.

Physical Tortures

Millions of Africans were kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas under horrific conditions beginning in the 16th century. During the agonizing journey, nearly two million people died at sea. Enslavement of Black people in the United States created wealth, opportunity, and prosperity for millions of Americans over two centuries. As American slavery developed, an elaborate and enduring mythology about Black people's inferiority was created to legitimize, perpetuate, and defend slavery. This mythology survived the Civil War's formal abolition of slavery.

During that time, Salves was subjected to gruesome and horrifying torture. Whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding, rape, and imprisonment were all used to punish them. The overseer's menacing scowl scrutinized every slave's movement, glance, and breath. If the overseer orders it, he could be stripped naked and paraded around town. If the overseer demanded it, he could be beaten raw with leather or metal. At the overseer's request, he could be branded with hot iron: a mark of shame as well as pain. The United States Antebellum Era saw the country built, divided, and even go to war over the issue of slavery. Slavery would cost the first African Americans and their descendants today through coercion, humiliation, and racial supremacy.

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