When the americas are discovered, the entire competition just seeps over the atlantic ocean into the new world. And you're already transitioning from a period where things like a your name and your birth really mattered as to whether or not you could participate in a lot of different things. That was being blown open by all kinds of things. The countries that get out of this landlocked time are places like central european,. Now, there is germany at this time, right? It won't coalesce for several hundred years. But what means that there's a giant german fleet with a german state can send its fleet out there to participate in all this? Well
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.