Show notes
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.
Highlighted moments
instead of you know these old ideas going away because they don't fit into a new modern paradigm what instead you see is a fusion don't you of this very ancient human institution of bondage mixing with the proto-modern economic system of the renaissance
“these people have been corrupted with the intellectual contagion of liberty and that makes for bad slaves”
“the french government is going to be forced to make concessions during this whole affair that they probably wouldn't have made otherwise because they're going to be faced with choices like make this concession or lose the entire island”
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