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Slavery and Salvation
Episode 2 of 5
In this episode, Zeinab Badawi visits Ghana and sees how momentum in the trans Atlantic slave trade led to competition for enslaved Africans between European nations.
In this episode, Zeinab Badawi visits Ghana and sees how momentum in the trans-Atlantic slave trade led to competition for enslaved Africans between European nations who built numerous slave forts along West Africa's Atlantic coast. She hears about the inhumane conditions in which slaves awaiting shipment were kept and how women were selected and subjected to rape by their captors. Also what do African academics believe were the main reasons behind abolition and why did many Africans return to the continent such as to Liberia? And how were they received by local communities?
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Sun 9 Aug 2020
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