What School Never Told You About ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE:WATCH DETAILS ON THE CHANNEL

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]There is a history behind the modern world that most people only hear in fragments.

[00:00:05]A history that lasted over 400 years.

[00:00:08]A history that shaped continents, built global economies, and destroyed millions of lives.

[00:00:14]>> [music] >> Between the early 1500s and the mid-1800s, European empires operated one of the most [music] organized forced human systems in recorded history. This was not random violence.

[00:00:25]>> [music] >> This was not scattered cruelty. This was a system, a global system designed, [music] funded, protected, and expanded over centuries.

[00:00:34]Historians estimate that between [music] 10 million and 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the [music] Atlantic Ocean, but that number does not include those who died before boarding ships. [music] It does not include those who died on forced marches to the coast. And it does not include those who never survived the dungeons.

[00:00:52]This system had a name.

[00:00:54]The transatlantic [music] slave trade, and what you are about to hear is not just history. It is