Over the previous century, some 800 thousand africans were landed there. Slaves now greatly outnumbered the french troops based in the colony. Hundreds of thousands of free workers in france depended on these san doming exports for their livelihood. They're going to break vincent oje on. The spanish authorities will end up turning them over to the french colonial authorities who will kill them.
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.