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In 1781 the crew of a British ship pushed more than a hundred chained Africans into the sea, and the lawsuit that followed was argued as a dispute about insurance. That one fact says a great deal about the Atlantic slave trade. For more than three centuries, human beings were bought, shipped, insured and inherited like goods, and much of the respectable world treated it as ordinary business.

Along the way you stand on a sugar estate off the African coast, bargain with a king's officials at Ouidah, read a famous drawing of a slave ship the way a historian would, and follow compensation money from the 1830s into British railways. You meet captives who rose against their captors, Quakers and formerly enslaved writers who built one of the first mass protest movements, and economists still arguing over who profited. By the end you should be able to explain how the system worked, why it finally fell, and why its legacies still divide cities and governments today.

Levels

  1. 1 1. Origins of the Atlantic System 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Africa and the Making of the Trade 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. The Middle Passage 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Slavery in the Americas 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Profits, Capitalism and the Defense of Slavery 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. The Birth of Abolitionism 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Ending the Trade and Slavery Itself 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Legacies, Memory and Slavery Today 5-question quiz

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