A French family living in Haiti expresses their fear and grievances about owning 200 slaves. Despite their dominance, they long for contact with others and feel trapped in a life intertwined with the slaves' existence.
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.