There has always been bigotry, prejudice and ethnocentrism in human history. But that's not the same thing as racism where it's based on skin color. The word quadroon is somebody who is a quarter block. And i had to look this one up. I hope it's not offensive, but almost all of them are going to be. That's just humanity.
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.