The First Plantation
Director | 2024
The stunning Caribbean island of Barbados is the birthplace of many things: rum, Rihanna, and sadly, so many of the modalities, laws, and norms of plantation slavery in the 1600s, which later spread across the Caribbean and the United States, paving the way for systemic racism and white supremacy as we know it today.
Directed by Barbadian filmmaker Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, The First Plantation is a spiritual and deeply personal investigation into the haunted legacy of the 13th smallest country in the world, its oversized impact on modern history, and how its undeniable claim for reparations may thoroughly reshape the western hemisphere just as the island once did almost 400 years ago.