I is a Long-Memoried Woman. Based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols - ACE419.4

Illustration of slaves dancing. Nichols talking about the "vexation" female slaves must have felt towards their idle mistresses, and sings lines from Hi Di Buckras Hi. Women singing from the same poem. Nichols’s VO saying that singing was a release for the women and one of the few permitted forms of expression. Lines from Skin-Teeth. Dancers in white face with I Coming Back chanted over. Nichols talking about Creole, created by slaves as a common language. "The Bloodling." Dancers. Lines from ...Like Clamouring Ghosts recited over. Dancers. Lines from ...Your Blessing. Nichols explains that this woman "feels invaded" as she is pregnant by her master; deciding to keep the child, she invokes her own mother. Younger woman reciting In My Name. Jungle. Nichols’s VO says the woman’s spirit goes off and connects with the spirit of AmerIndian women and women from elsewhere. Lines from I Will Enter. Engravings of Conquistadors ill-treatment of Aztecs.