For our latest podcast, we talked to Joshua Rothman, historian at the University of Alabama, about his recent book The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America..
As part of the mental project by Americans to assume that most of us, especially those who were in the north, didn't really approve of the slave trade, we've painted.
The daily horrors of the slave trade are just too much for us to quite comprehend. Here is a new discovery: In the early 15th century, Portuguese explorers like Henry.
