"This is one of those subjects that every one should have as part of their sort of foundational knowledge," he says. "It's monumentally huge, and a person like yours truly is completely inadequate to dealing with it." 'I always hope that i can be one little tile in the giant mosaic that is the picture here'
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.