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Oct 25, 2026
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
But one institution stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
The Atlantic slave trade, occurring from the late 15th to the mid-19th century and spanning three continents, forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
the impact it would leave affected not only these slaves and their descendants, but the economies and histories of large parts of the world.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
there had been centuries of contact between Europe and Africa via the Mediterranean.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
But the Atlantic slave trade began in the late 1400s with Portuguese colonies in West Africa and Spanish settlement of the Americas shortly after.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugarcane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor-intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
American natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
Women and children were kept above deck and abused by the crew, while the men were made to perform dances in order to keep them exercised and curb rebellion.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
where is it popular in what nook or corner of the state are principles of humanity so deplorably deficient that a majority of the whole inhabitants would commit an outrage not committed in a christian country of which history gives any account In what country is it, this side of Africa, that the majority have enslaved the minority, sold the weak to the strong, and applied the proceeds of the sale to educate the children of the stronger side, as this bill proposes? It is an open assertion that might makes right.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
It is reopening the African slave trade.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
In that trade the strong capture the weak and sell them, and so it will be here if this policy is carried out.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
In some of the States the law was enacted and the people driven out or sold.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
Those who were able to pay their way out came away.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
Those who could not raise the means were doomed to languish in bondage till released by the rebellion.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
About the same time, in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, strong efforts were being made to reopen the African slave trade.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
At the Democratic State Convention, held in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, May 1, 1860, Mr. Gauldin made the following speech.
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End of Stenography and the Typewriter by Willis Duff Piercy
AvayiNARRATOR
Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade by John Newton.
AvayiNARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
AvayiNARRATOR
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AvayiNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Avayi in May 2022.
AvayiNARRATOR
Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade The nature and effects of that unhappy and disgraceful branch of commerce which has long been maintained on the coast of Africa, with the sole and professed design of purchasing our fellow creatures in order to supply our West India islands and the American colonies when they were ours with slaves, is now generally understood.
AvayiNARRATOR
So much light has been thrown upon the subject by many able pens, and so many respectable persons have already engaged to use their utmost influence for the suppression of a traffic which contradicts the feelings of humanity, that it is hoped this stain of our national character will soon be wiped out.
AvayiNARRATOR
If I attempt, after what has been done, to throw my might into the public stock of information, it is less from an apprehension that my interference is necessary than from a conviction that silence, at such a time and on such an occasion, would, in me, be criminal.
LukeHOST
Or take Dietrich Bonhoeffer, for instance, the great German pastor and professor and theologian and martyr who stood up against the Nazis and preached on themes like no compromise with evil and the cost of discipleship.
LukeHOST
But there's William Wilberforce and his four-hour sermon called Abolish the Slave Trade that he preached in 1791, outlining the evils of slavery.
LukeHOST
There are many famous sermons of people like Billy Graham.
LukeHOST
For instance, when he spoke to a crowd of 3.2 million people in South Korea in 1973, and more than 75,000 people responded to an invitation to accept Jesus as their Lord.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
We cannot forbear mentioning in connection with this subject the noble example which the colored slaveholders of Martinique have sent to their white brethren by petitioning the French Chamber of Deputies to abolish slavery in that island, stating that they regarded it as an act not only of justice, but of policy.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
This is the only record on the page of history of such an act of mercy, but we hope it may stimulate slaveholders in these United States to petition Congress to exert her influence in destroying the horrible system of American slavery by abolishing it in the District of Columbia and in Florida, and by exterminating the interstate slave trade.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
We earnestly entreat you to emulate the conduct of your brethren in Martinique by letting your righteousness exceed the righteousness of our white fellow citizens, that whereas they speak evil against you as evildoers, they may by your good works which they shall behold glorify God.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
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Sonali PoonjaNARRATOR
But for your virtuous and uncompromising hostility to the colonization society, a portion of our countrymen might never have been disabused of the idle and fallacious expectation that this scheme would cure the moral evil of slavery and put an end to the horrible slave traffic carried on on the coast of Africa.
Sonali PoonjaNARRATOR
You saw that the root of the evil was in our own land and that the expatriation of the best part of our colored population so far from abolishing slavery would render the condition of the enslaved tenfold more hopeless.
Sonali PoonjaNARRATOR
You saw that the only means of destroying the slave trade was to destroy the spirit of slavery.
Sonali PoonjaNARRATOR
And how just have been your conclusions, let the following testimonies declare.
Meghna ChakrabartiHOST
And that is you have done dives on... sunken slave ships.
Meghna ChakrabartiHOST
In fact, in 2022, you co-authored a book called Enslaved, The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Meghna ChakrabartiHOST
Can you talk to me about that?
Sean KingsleyGUEST
Yeah.
Audrey SimmonsHOST
SI Martin is a humanist, a British author and researcher, um, for historical archives, and a teacher specializing in Black British history and literature.
Audrey SimmonsHOST
His books include An In- Incomparable World and the British Slave Trade.
Audrey SimmonsHOST
Professor Cameron is a history professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte with research and teaching interests in African American and early American history.
Audrey SimmonsHOST
He's an author, and his books include Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism, and he has just published, alongside Professor Anthony Pinn, Black Humanist Studies: History, Method and Application.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
The trade reached far beyond a handful of merchants, touching institutions and individuals who are often remembered for other achievements.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
So who were Britain's slave traders? How did the system become so deeply embedded in British life? And why has so much of this history been forgotten? Joining me today is the prize-winning historian William Pettigrew, Professor of History at King's College London.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
He came on the podcast four years ago to talk about slavery and the Royal African Company.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
Do go back and have a listen to that episode.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
But since 2021, Will has led a group of nine historians at three British universities who have conducted the most comprehensive research and analysis ever undertaken into the people and institutions behind Britain's slave trade.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
And his new book, Britain's Slave Traders: A Forgotten History, challenges us to confront just how central slavery was to Britain's emergence as a global power.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
I'm Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, and this is Not Just the Tudors from History Hit.
Suzannah LipscombHOST
Will, welcome back to the podcast.
Holly FreyHOST
We're only covering two of them today.
Holly FreyHOST
And the first of them has roots in the English Civil War, and the second one is tied to colonialism in the Caribbean and the slave trade.
Holly FreyHOST
Sort of.
Holly FreyHOST
Maybe.
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Tracy V. WilsonHOST
The main version of it goes like this.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
There was a plantation owner in Dorset named Azariah Penny, and he somehow acquired an enslaved man whose name remains unknown.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
Penny, according to some people, was himself involved in the slave trade, although that seems like it might be a conflation of different details.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
We'll talk more about that in a bit.
AKHOST
lovely.
AKHOST
And finally, or maybe you have one, we're welcoming the team behind the Register of the British Slave Traders.
AKHOST
Oh yeah, amazing.
AKHOST
Led by Professor William Pettigrew at King's College London, a team of historians have spent five years identifying 13,000 people who invested in Britain's transatlantic slave trade, creating what researchers say is the most comprehensive register of its kind.
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