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The Atlantic slave trade was not a single enterprise but a centuries-long, globe-spanning system that transformed economies, cultures, and human lives across Africa, the Americas, and Europe. This show examines the trade from its 15th-century origins under Portuguese and Spanish colonization through its peak in the 18th century and its eventual abolition in the 19th century. Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the brutal Middle Passage, the rise of plantation economies in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States, and the resistance and resilience of enslaved Africans. We explore key figures such as Olaudah Equiano, whose autobiography exposed the trade's horrors; Zumbi dos Palmares, leader of a Brazilian maroon community; and British abolitionists like William Wilberforce. We also confront the trade's enduring legacies: the racism that justified it, the wealth it created for European empires, and the ongoing debates over reparations and memory. This is a history of suff
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In this episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade, Lucas and Luna descend into the hellish reality of the Middle Passage. Drawing on slave ship logs, surgeon's journals, and the testimony of Olaudah Equiano, they explore the b
In this episode of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Empire Built on Human Suffering, Lucas and Luna examine the 1781 Zong massacre — not as a random act of brutality but as a cold insurance calculation. The slave ship Zong, ove
How did a mild-mannered London clerk with no legal training bring down the legal pillars of Atlantic slavery? This episode follows Granville Sharp, the obsessive abolitionist behind the Somerset Case (1772) that made sla
In November 1841, the American slave ship Creole departed Richmond, Virginia, bound for New Orleans with 135 enslaved people aboard. Off the coast of North Carolina, 19 captives led by Madison Washington — who had escape
In December 1831, a 25,000-strong enslaved workforce in Jamaica's western parishes rose up in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean. At its heart was Samuel 'Sam' Sharpe, a literate, Baptist de
In 1822, an enslaved carpenter named Denmark Vesey, who had purchased his freedom, was accused of orchestrating a massive slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina. Using his skills as a literate, well-traveled man,
On September 9, 1739, a group of about twenty enslaved Africans gathered near the Stono River in South Carolina, twenty miles from Charleston. Led by a man named Jemmy — possibly from the Kingdom of Kongo — they raided a
In August 1831, an enslaved preacher named Nat Turner led a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, that became one of the bloodiest and most consequential slave uprisings in American history. This episode traces Turn
In 1839, fifty-three Africans held captive on the Cuban slave schooner La Amistad rose up, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship, setting off a legal and political firestorm that reached the U.S. Supreme Cou
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the extraordinary life of Olaudah Equiano, who was kidnapped from his Igbo village in West Africa as a child, survived the Middle Passage, and eventually purchased his freedom. Equ
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the little-known story of the Negro Fort, a British-built fortress in Spanish Florida that became a refuge for hundreds of escaped slaves and a beacon of freedom. After the War of
In August 1823, a massive slave revolt erupted in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana). Unlike many uprisings, it was led not by a military commander but by a literate deacon named Jack Gladstone, inspired by rumo
In 1807, after decades of activism, tragedy, and political maneuvering, the British Parliament voted to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. This episode explores the human stories behind the Abolition Act: the relentl
In 1812, Cuba's largest slave conspiracy came to light. This episode uncovers the Aponte Rebellion, named after its leader José Antonio Aponte, a free Black carpenter and former militia lieutenant. We explore how Aponte
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the opening chapter of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolt that created an independent Black republic. They focus on the Bois Caïman ceremony of August 1791, w
Four German Quakers in a small Pennsylvania town drafted the first known public protest against slavery in the American colonies in 1688. This episode explores the Germantown Mennonite community, the Radical Pietist theo
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the complex and often overlooked role that African kingdoms played in the transatlantic slave trade. They delve into how powerful states like the Asante Empire, the Kingdom of Daho
In April 1816, enslaved Africans on the Caribbean island of Barbados rose up in what became known as the Bussa Rebellion, the island's largest and most coordinated slave revolt. This episode follows the uprising's leader
Lucas and Luna dive into the explosive opening of the Haitian Revolution, focusing on the August 1791 slave uprising in the northern plain of Saint-Domingue. They examine the secret Bois Caïman ceremony led by Boukman Du
In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht granted Britain the asiento — a monopoly contract to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's American colonies. This episode dives into how the South Sea Company, a financial corporation, becam
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