
The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...
Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery was directed by William Cally.
Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery runs for 1h 42min, and was released in 2015.
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