Slavery Podcast

As part of the commemorations for the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade, ‘Free at Last’ a three part documentary from BBC investigates the unexplored history of black and African resistance to slavery.

Part One: How the Slave Trade Worked
Part Two: The Road to Emancipation

Related;
The Abolition of British Slavery - Interactive Map
Slavery- Breaking the chains

When the dungeons were excavated in the late 19th century, a mass of caked excrement was removed, together with the bones of birds and animals on which the slaves presumably fed. On such misery was founded a global trading system that in its heyday, in the mid-18th century, was taking about 85,000 Africans a year across the Atlantic to work on sugar and tobacco plantations that made Europe rich.

Cape Coast Castle was the grandest of the slave emporiums, at the centre of the trade. But in present-day Ghana, then called the Gold Coast, there were over 30 more slave forts, built and maintained by almost all of the European trading powers of the day: the Swedes, Danes, French, British, Dutch and Portuguese

Slavery in west Africa-Stones of shame
People-trafficking in Odessa
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America
The legacy of slavery

Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery

Books;
The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade By William St Clair
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer By Tim Jeal
A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana. From the 15th to the 19th Century
by Akosua, Adoma Perbi
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and Cataracts of the Congo