Today we look at: British Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/british-parliament-passes-abolition-slave-trade-act | South African History Online - SAHO

Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trade’s beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved A