The french revolution's famous symbol that's often associated with it is the guillotine, right? The heading machine. What's going to happen to vincent oje in early 17 91, as part of his punishment for leading this insurrection was exactly what the Guillotine was invented to be. Sometimes they can kill you first and then break your body after you're dead, but that's pretty merciful. And that's not it apparently was in oger's case.
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.