This is the strangest part to me of modern day slavery, because you see the same sorts of stories in the past, but they seem to belong in the distant past. I was reading a book called how the word is passed, by clint smith, and it's about sone of the legacies of american slavery that he can see when he travels around. And he goes to thomas jefferson's home and engages with some tourists who are there going through a tour afterwards,. Who were surprised to find oubt ou know, about jefferson’s slave past and all that.
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.