Renaissance means rebirth, and it was always associated with new ideas. The people in europe had gotten their hands on some of this ancient greek and roman stuff a couple of centuries earlier. They were pouring through the scientific side of this stuff. But at's the renaissance, they start getting and they become popular.
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.