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This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes
Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trade’s...
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interesting article.
Very interesting, but also heartbreaking. When I saw the diagram on the next page of a typical ship layout, I had to stop reading.
I thought so. :)