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Season 2 Episode
- Season 2 Desert Empires
- Season 2 City States and Civilisations
- Season 2 Coast and Conquest
- Season 2 Southern Kingdoms
- Season 2 The Golden Stool
- Season 2 No Longer at Ease
- Season 2 Slavery and Suffering
- Season 2 Slavery and Salvation
- Season 2 Diamonds, Gold and Greed
- Season 2 Kongo and the Scramble for Africa
- Season 2 Resistance and Liberation
The History of Africa - Season 2 Episode 8 Slavery and Salvation
0.00 48 minutes In this episode, Zeinab Badawi visits Ghana and sees how momentum in the trans Atlantic slave trade led to competition for enslaved Africans between European nations who built numerous slave forts along West Africa’s Atlantic coast. She hears about the inhumane conditions in which slaves awaiting shipment were kept and how women were selected and subjected to rape by their captors. Also what do African academics believe were the main reasons behind abolition and why did many Africans return to the continent such as to Liberia? And how were they received by local communities?
