The Impact of the Slave Trade through a Ghanaian Lens

Watch this video, which describes how the Atlantic slave trade transported 12.5 million people from Africa and likely caused the death of millions more. The violence and forced migration caused long-term suffering at the individual and societal levels. In this video, three Ghanaian scholars offer a sense of its impact on the coast, the interior, and the far north of this region.

 

Source: World History Project, https://youtu.be/s-To3HWs9l8
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