The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24
In which John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery. John investigates when and where slavery originated, how it changed over the centuries, and how Europeans...
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Hi, my name is John Green, this is Crash Course World History and today we're gonna talk about slavery.Slavery is not funny. In fact, it is very near the top of the list of things that aren'tfunny, so today's episode is gonna be a little light on the jokes but, I'm gonna help youunderstand what pre-Civil War Americans often euphemistically refer to as "the peculiar institution."[Intro Music]Slavery is as old as civilization itself, although it is not as old as humanity thanksto our hunting and gathering foremothers, but the numbers involved in the Atlantic slavetrade are truly staggering.From 1500 to 1880CE somewhere between 10 and 12 million African slaves were forcibly movedfrom Africa to the Americas and about ...
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Hi, my name is John Green, this is Crash Course World History and today we're gonna talk about slavery.Slavery is not funny. In fact, it is very near the top of the list of things that aren'tfunny, so today's episode is gonna be a little light on the jokes but, I'm gonna help youunderstand what pre-Civil War Americans often euphemistically refer to as "the peculiar institution."[Intro Music]Slavery is as old as civilization itself, although it is not as old as humanity thanksto our hunting and gathering foremothers, but the numbers involved in the Atlantic slavetrade are truly staggering.From 1500 to 1880CE somewhere between 10 and 12 million African slaves were forcibly movedfrom Africa to the Americas and about ...
