"They're so lucky they ran into us so they could be our slaves and we could civilize them. But i do believe they've immensely benefited by coming amongst us," he says. "Would you feel safe doing that? There's a much used quote from a woman whos she was anti slavery, but i think she married into a pro slavery family or whatever." He asks: 'For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction'
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.