Vincent Oge, a wealthy mixed-race planter from San Domingo, delivers a speech in Paris in 1789. He warns of impending disaster and proposes prompt action to avoid bloodshed, destruction, and revolt. Oge offers his plan to the assembly, hoping to help prevent catastrophe.
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.