Singer Izaline Calister, accompanied by Nile Rodgers (guitar) and Roël Calister (percussion), performs the story and song of Vlemayo Cositu.

The story is first being told in English, then sung in Papiamentu, the native language of Curaçao.

Filmed at the concert for the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery in the General Assembly Hall in the UN-building in New York, March 25 2009.

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