Descendant : Les héritiers d'Africatown

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La réalisatrice de documentaires Margaret Brown ("The Order of Myths", "The Great Invisible") rentre dans sa ville natale de Mobile, dans l'Alabama, pour faire la chronique de la recherche et de la découverte historique du Clotilda, dernier navire négrier arrivé aux États-Unis chargé d'Africains illégalement réduits en esclavage. Après un siècle de secrets et de spéculations, la mise au jour de la goélette en 2019 a attiré l'attention sur la communauté de descendants d'Africatown. Ce documentaire offre un portrait émouvant des personnes qui se battent encore aujourd'hui pour préserver leur héritage et qui posent la question de savoir ce qu'est la justice.

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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada

00:30The Merre family lied to lead people to the wrong area so they wouldn't find the ship.

00:40How should I say this? I don't want the momentum of the story to just be focused on the ship. It's not all about that ship.

00:53The village that these Africans built, they called African Town.

00:57They created this thriving place and they've been holding it down and fighting ever since.

01:03By 2019, Afric Town is completely surrounded every direction by some form of heavy industry.

01:13What person want to wake up knowing that they sitting on historic land, but they got to smell the chemicals from a factory?

01:19A lot of influential people involved in all this. I think the Book of Secrets is going to be open.

01:27I don't want our history to be taken the same way our people were taken.

01:30But everybody wants to know something about action systems.

01:39History is like a puzzle that fits together.

01:42I don't want to be a part of it.

01:47I would like for us to be it.

01:50As a child, I thought the story was sad.

01:55Now, I don't get sad no more.

01:57Because we're still here.

02:06My only fear is for my people's story not to be told.

02:09I don't want to be told.

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