Slavery was once seen as a peculiar institution, but now it's universally reviled. There are more than forty million people classified as slaves in the world. Chattel slavery is where we take human beings and make them things. The most recent example of chattel slavery came when christopher colus found the new world for the europeans.
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.