Enon: The slavery thing defies easy classification. It's such a basic part of the make up of things that it's impossible to talk about the influential factors in the slave trade without just talking about the influential Factors in life. In other words, what you can draw from that is that slavery is so interconnected in that world that you can't tease it out like a strand in a rope. Andt the turks had christian slave soldiers, which is a different slave, a level on the slavery gradient scale too. There could be some really powerful slaves, slaves who owned lots of slaves. Nd, there's obviously no easy answer to this, if there's any answer at
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.