A Daughter of the Congo

A Daughter of the Congo is a 1930 race film directed, written and produced by Oscar Micheaux. The film is loosely based on the novel The American Cavalryman 1917, by AfricanAmerican novelist and playwright Henry Francis Downing.

Lupelta Katherine Noisette is a mixedrace Congolese girl who was stolen at birth and raised by a hostile tribe. She is designated to marry a tribal chief, but on her way to the wedding she is abducted by Arab slave traders. Before she is sold into slavery, she is rescued by an AfricanAmerican military battalion under the command of Captain Paul Dale Lorenzo Tucker. Dale brings Lupelta to a mission school, where she is successfully acquainted with Westernstyle civilization. However, she never completely loses touch with the tribal customs and influences that shaped her formative years.A Daughter of the Congo was the last silent film created by Oscar Micheaux, one of the most prominent AfricanAmerican filmmakers of the race film genre. Since silent films were considered to have little commercial value in 1930, Micheaux released the film as a talking, singing, dancing picture although it only contained a single short sound sequence that included a performance of the song That Gets It by Roland Irving and Earl B. Westfield. ........

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