Why tell stories of slavery?
Poster of the exhibition "Tromelin, the island of forgotten slaves" at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, until June 3, 2019. © S.Savoia, Collection Aire Libre, Dupuis & JF Rebeyrotte
By: Charlie Dupiot Follow |
Caroline Lachowsky
2 min
Why tell stories of slavery?
From what traces, often obscured erased?
How to re-inscribe, in our history, the individual trajectories of all those who have suffered and still suffer from slavery? On the occasion of the anniversary of the Taubira law for the recognition of trafficking and slavery as a crime against humanity.
Publicity
(Replay of May 15, 2019)
The deserted island of Tromelin
, in the heart of the Indian Ocean and the "Secret Valley", in the hollow of a mountain range on the island of Reunion, have one thing in common: these particularly inhospitable places sheltered slaves in fight.
Delivered to their fate following a shipwreck in the first case, fleeing in the second.
These sites today embody a new way of approaching the history of slavery, long remained that of the slavers and their exploitations.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, archaeologists and historians have been examining the individual trajectories of the men and women behind the word “slaves”.
How to reinscribe them in a history which excluded them, for lack of traces?
On the occasion of the Day of Commemoration of Slavery in France, May 10, interviews with
Max Guérout
and
Thomas Romon,
archaeologists on the island of Tromelin.
-
Anne-Laure Dijoux
, archaeologist and doctor in archeology on Reunion Island
-
Henriette Yague
, Senegalese doctoral student at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
And historians
Myriam Cottias
and
Antonio de Almeida Mendes
, researchers at the
International Center for Research on Slavery
(CIRESC).
→ Exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme,
Tromelin, the island of forgotten slaves
(from February 13 to June 3, 2019).
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