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Diagram of the crammed quarters of a ship in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in 1808 AD (media.piefed.social)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was, even by the low standards of the history of slavery, fucking horrific. It ranks up there with the Holocaust for sheer inhumanity.