Rulers in spain made a huge move when they eliminate slavery. So the people on the ground just come up with ways around it, cluding the fact that there is exceptions to the rule. People who are not humanitarians notice right away too that we'd better be talking about replacement workers. And those replacement workers are probably going to have to come from africa.
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.