Slavery, a World History

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A slave holding family is asking for pity, because they're stuck with all these slaves that they own. David brion davis has this great question. It's us the kind of questions that we would ask too were he asks. Can you imagine trying to be the person whose job it is to keep a hundred and 50 or even 50 slaves in line?

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.