"These are monsters that deserve slavery," he says of the slave rioters. "This is going to be held up as an example, especially by the pro slavery people of the savagery here" He adds: 'It's never quite pointed out that the functional equivalent of what they're doing here was done to them right before this revolution started'
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.