Wars in the Atlantic World
Dan Snow's History Hit
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How Many Ways to Die in the Slave Trade?
There were a lot of ways to die. And i think people knew it as well. D i guess that's another reason why i particularly wanted to look at the sailors more than the admirals or whatever. A fair number of them were physically abduct hother people were sort of abandoned as children and had no other way to support themselves but be people going into this violent world. Most of them would have known the risks and the dangers of what they were getting into. But the scale of death, i was shocking, thinking about it from our perspective.
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