Man first ventured into the open ocean with big ships. In those days, there was a very good chance if you went off into the open Ocean, even a short distance away, you weren't coming home. And it was different ship designs, different tional tools and different theories that led to advances in european ocean going travel.
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.