A True Story of Abandonment: Tromelin Island and the Africans Left Behind | RearView TV

Описание: In 1761, a French slave ship wrecked on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean.
The crew escaped.
More than sixty enslaved Africans were left behind.

This is the true story of Tromelin Island—a flat, barren stretch of sand where Black men and women survived 15 years with no fresh water, no trees, and no help from the world that abandoned them.

After the ship L’Utile struck a coral reef, the white crew built a boat and sailed away, promising to return.
They never did.

When rescue finally came in 1776, only seven women and one infant were still alive.

This is not a story of myth or miracle.
It is a story of discipline, intelligence, and African survival knowledge—confirmed by archaeological research only in the 21st century.

At Rearview TV, we turn around and look at what history left behind.
Because silence is not absence—it is erasure.

If we don’t tell these stories, they disappear again.




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📚 SOURCES & RESEARCH
French colonial records on Tromelin Island and L’Utile (1761)
Rescue by La Dauphine (1776)
Archaeological expeditions (2006–2016)
Musée d’Histoire de Nantes — L’île des esclaves oubliés
Research on Malagasy survival practices and material culture