First hand accounts are tough, but if they're all you have, sometimes, well, abolitionists will use this kind of material to argue that this is exactly why we have to get rid of slavery asap. And by the ay, all this happens cause of you abolitionists stirring up trouble in the first place. You'll see a lot of blame for the rights of man and the citizen and all these kinds of enlightenment ideas, philosophies,. They'll say, with a sneer, corrupting all these people.
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.