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Episode 88: Andrew S. Curran

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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African American Slavery in the Scientific Academy

Bordeaux became the largest port in france by about 17 50. It deported a number of people that was greater than the entire population of the city. Over all, an the numbers of people living in the eightenth century were far smaller. They're deporting them from bordeaux to the slave trade across the west coast of africa and then caribbean and north america. That's right. The whole litany of races ideas. Tis is coming from an african American man.

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