LZ Granderson: Slave revolts don't happen as often as we might think they should in history. He says that's because all these societies are very aware of how precarious things could get. LZ: The lynchings and hangings in the nineteenth century are probably the best thing that could happen to you. It could get a lot worse, he adds.
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.