The shrieks of the women and the groans of the dying rendered the whole a scene of horror, almost conceivable. Slaves jump overboard to get away from it,. committing suicide, some believing that they'll go back to africa after they die. Some refuse to eat, and as a response, are brutally flogged. And once again, we have the hidden part of this story, which is the rape by the crew continuously across the whole journey.
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.