When she was captured as a child in West Africa, the girl who would become Charlotte had no idea that she would contribute to the end of slavery in Quebec in the early 1800s.
Rapper and independent historian Aly Ndiaye, aka Webster, has compiled all the information he could find to trace the journey of this woman with an extraordinary destiny, from the coast of Africa to the English Caribbean islands to the St. Lawrence Valley.
Charlotte is inspired by a true story. It is a tale of courage and resilience. It provides a better understanding of how Quebec became involved in the transatlantic slave trade in the 18th century and, above all, how enslaved people resisted it.
In the vein of Le Grain de Sable, which recounts the life of Olivier Le Jeune, the first person enslaved in Canada, Webster uses his rapper's pen to narrate the journey of the woman who contributed to the abolition of slavery in Quebec.
