During the Great Depression, the government hired people to collect stories from surviving slaves. One account described a pregnant slave being beaten by a black overseer. The complexity of the situation highlights the complicated realities of history.
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.