The first hand accounts talk about the entire area being cordoned off at any time. Any black people fall into the hands of the white colonists. The situation, though, quickly becomes a nasty in the extreme. This seems to me to be the very definition and the epitome of a race war. Revenge to a degree which i can't imagine.
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.