Details
Directed by: Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey de Vere
Country:
United Kingdom
Runtime: 1hr 35min
Year: 2022
Topics:
History & Archive
Last Screened:
Fri 14th Oct 2022
As the Chief Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m ($360m) airport project, Annina Van Neel learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley.
Haunted by this historical injustice, one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth, Annina now fights alongside renowned African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde and a group of disenfranchised islanders – many of them descendants of the formerly enslaved – for the proper memorialisation of these forgotten victims. The resistance they face exposes disturbing truths about the UK’s colonial past and present.
