THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: THE FULL STORY
Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & Movements
In this History episode we focus on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade — the four-century institution that transported approximately 12.5 million African people across the Atlantic, killed 1.8 million in the crossing alone, and was legal, endorsed by governments and churches, and producing consequences that are still being lived today.
This episode covers the Portuguese origins of the systematic trade, the Triangle route, the Middle Passage and what it actually involved, the economics of sugar and why the plantation system made it cheaper to work…
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