The People of the World

Serge Saljals and his friends learned that France's National Archives held registers of the people freed from slavery. They decided to compile a definitive list of every person the French enslaved so that their names could be memorialized. And they decided to make a list of the original ones. After that first visit,. Salj and the nonprofit recruited volunteers, the binival, to comb through the registers. Slowly, painstakingly, they recorded every name they could find. Years passed. Then, one day, in 2006, Saljals worked at his parents' hospital when the phone rang. It was a volunteer calling from the archives. Hijliet Romana and Volange Charle Rom