Ep. 20: The Middle Passage: Igboland to America
Liberty Chronicles
English - September 12, 2017 04:15 - 20 minutes - 16.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsPolitics News History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Along with Frederick Douglass, the most famous slave in history was probably Olaudah Equiano. On Equiano’s Middle Passage, he shared space belowdecks with other Africans from possibly dozens of ethnic groups, speaking different languages. Once loaded into the ship’s hold, they were all outsiders.
Music by Kai Engel
Further Readings
Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. London: Verso. 1997.
Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History. London: Penguin Books. 2007.
Vincent Caretta. Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. London: Penguin Books. 2005.
Selections from Snelgrave: “Slavery’s Defenders vs. the First Abolitionists”
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