History
The Middle Passage
The middle passage is a stretch of ocean that spans from coast to coast of Africa to America. This ocean trial was used by slave traders, transporting stolen people from Africa illegally on most of the times undocumented ships. During the middle passage, many Africans were abused, and went through so many other heinous acts majority of the African women were subject to sexual abuse as well as physical abuse.
Charleston
Charleston, SC was one the main ports in importing slave’s from Africa to North America so much that it was deemed the Ellis Island of the South! Most of the imported slaves were auction at the Old Slave Market. According to the 1860 census nine of America’s largest slaveholders were in South Carolina.
South Carolina was the only state to reopen the African slave trade after the Revolution, and tens of thousands of Africans were imported. By 1808, when the external slave trade was closed, it is estimated that some 40 percent of all slaves brought to the United States had entered through the port of Charleston. On the journey to becoming black Carolinians. Africans of many different ethnic backgrounds passed through Sullivan’s Island, where there was a slave quarantine station. In this sense it was the African counterpart to Europeans’ Ellis Island.
Cinema
I’ve always like old Hollywood films from The Ten Commandments, to The God Father, Vertigo,
which my film is based on. The Pier film pays homage to old Hollywood cinema, with its
cinematography, which will be transferred to 16mm film, to its production design, with great
location, to the main characters Gina’s costumes.