The African Slave Trade in Two Minutes

Since in the podcast timeline we are still at the very beginning of North American settlement, we have not gone too deeply into the vexing question of slavery, whether of Indians or Africans, apart from mentioning the topic when it fits into the story. We shall get there. In the meantime, here’s a very well done video that shows, in two minutes, the flow of African enslaved people to various destinations in the western hemisphere over a period of roughly three hundred years.

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