In this blog I've focused on places, rather than historic eras. However, I feel like any travel between the Americas and Africa - even it's only virtual - should at least briefly discuss the awful history. The main political divides in the U.S. and many other countries in the Americas can be attributed to the history of slavery. And I don't think that these modern political differences will be overcome until we get to a basic agreed understanding of our past.
The following video is from The History Channel - it discusses the general atrocities that people experienced on ships and a specific ship - The Zong - after which there was legal precedent for treating slaves as "cargo" rather than people.
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