Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

Name: Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Released: 2015
Duration: 102 min
Cast: Jacques Deshayes, Stéphane Thomas, David Erudel, Ophélie Galant, Kristof Langromme

2015

1h 42min

Documentary

Drama

History

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The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...

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