Image from the short film PELAGIE X. In the image, an older Black woman wearing a mauve long-sleeved dress and a light headscarf sits outdoors on a green lawn with her hands folded in her lap. Behind her, laundry hangs on clotheslines between trees.
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Umrath Hall, Lounge

PÉLAGIE X: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Join us for a screening of PÉLAGIE X, a new short film by two-time Academy Award® winning Breakwater Studios. The film recounts the story of Pélagie Amoureux, a formerly enslaved woman who defied societal norms and stood up in legal battles. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with the film team, Pélagie’s descendants, and Amoureux House experts. Her 18th-century home in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, still stands as a rare architectural and historical testament to that period and to the lives of enslaved people.

Free and open to all.

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Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, WashU Libraries, and the Center for the Humanities.