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The Ghost Fleet of the Atlantic Slave Trade
While the Berlin Conference and Treaty of Tordesillas dominate discussions of colonial division, a darker mechanism operated in silence for centuries: the Middle Passage. This episode examines the logistics of human trafficking by tracing the voyages of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to enter the United States in 1860, decades after the transatlantic trade was legally abolished. We explore how privateers and international brokers bypassed naval blockades, carrying nearly twelve million Africans to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through the story of the…
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