Between getting history wrong, and producers showing off slavery memorabilia, it’s looking rough for Emancipation.
loosely based on the life of a Black man named Gordon who escaped enslavement in 1863
It’s perfectly normal for dramatic period movies to massage certain details in service of good storytelling. But this week, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, condemnedfor failing to accurately “reflect the Republic of Haiti’s epic, valiant, unprecedented, and unequivocal contribution to the cause of freedom in the face of the cruelty and inhuman system of chattel slavery.
“So Peter and his wife were brought from Haiti, and that was their native language, and then their children were born and raised on the plantation in America,” Smith said. “So they were raised under American English. So, you know, there’s a whole lot of the diaspora of the African slave trade.”
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