Some believe, at least four million who died as part of the slave raiding warfare. As soon as some of these early places in the new world start churning out the first really popular yellow bananas. It is hard to get your mind around what a big deal sugar could be. People would go to war over that. You have to think of something that's really big in our world.
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.