The Atlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The purpose of this episode is to paint an accurate timeline of the enslaved person’s journey to the Americans while dispelling and correcting inaccurate myths surrounding American enslavement.

Join our black historian of the week, Xavier Sivels, as we discuss the day to day life like for those who were enslaved and the atrocities that occurred durning American enslavement as we view it through an Afrocentric perspective.