Please make sure to watch the film Burn! Queimada (1969) by Gillo Pontecorvo, which is available on YouTube online here:
This is a fictional narrative about the process of independence of an imagined Portuguese colony in the Caribbean called Queimada. It is based very loosely on the history of the Haitian Revolution, which we will be talking about on Monday.
As you watch it, please make sure you make note of the following:
1) Why is the island on which the fictional narrative takes place called Queimada? ("queimada" in Portuguese means "burned").
2) What history do we learn about the island in the opening scenes?
3) Who is William Walker and why does he go to the island? Who is he working for? What is his relationship to the leadership of the island? Why does the leadership need him?
4) Who was executed just before William Walker arrives to the island? Why does the governor of the island tell William Walke
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