In the triangular trade of that dark period of black slavery - Europe-Africa-The Caribbean and America, historians, novelists and film-makers (fiction and documentary) have often interested themselves in the two extremes which were Africa and the Caribbean, but have rarely spoken of the life of the white slave-traders in Europe, the fortunes that were built up, the ports whose towns expanded through this trade. In France in the 18th century more than 40 % of the expeditions for slaves set sail from Nantes. At the Revolution it was the French town the most hostile to the abolition of slavery. It is also, however, the first European town which has accepted to examine its not always glorious past in an exhibition "The Links of memory" which, for two years, will allow the new generations to discover what happened.

A film by Kitia Touré
1994 - France - 31 minutes - 3/4 Umatic