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The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering
In this pilot episode, Lucas and Luna open with a vivid scene: August 1619, Point Comfort, Virginia, where "twenty and odd" Africans are forcibly disembarked from the English privateer White Lion. They pull back to trace the Atlantic slave trade's roots in 15th-century Portuguese ventures along the West African coast, the plantation complex on São Tomé, and the first direct shipment of enslaved Africans to the Americas in 1525. The hosts discuss the Middle Passage's horrors—shipboard rebellion, suicide, and the commodification of human beings—and introduce key figures like King…
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