Episode 3:The TransAtlantic Slave Trade | Sugar, Violence, Resistance and Rebellion |Slavery Routes

The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. By the 17th century, the Atlantic had become the center of a brutal new economy - one built on sugar, conquest, finance, and the mass deportation of millions of Africans.

Episode 3: From Sugar to Rebellion explores how European powers turned the Caribbean into a battlefield for sugar. France, England, Spain and the Netherlands fought for control of the islands, where sugar plantations became one of the most profitable - and violent - systems of exploitation in history.

To feed this economy, new slave routes were opened between Africa and the Americas. Banks, insurers, merchants and royal powers helped industrialize the trade, pushing deportations to unprecedented levels. Nearly 7 million Africans were caught in a vast Atlantic system of forced labor, racial violence, and colonial profit.

From the ports of Nantes, Liverpool and Amsterdam to the forts of the Gold Coast, from Caribbean plantations to the rise of slave rebellions and abolitionist voices, this third episode of Slavery Routes reveals how sugar transformed the Atlantic world - and how enslaved people resisted the system built to destroy them.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction: Sugar, Slavery, and the Rise of an Atlantic Empire
▷ 01:44 - The Caribbean at the Center of the Slave Routes
▷ 03:35 - The Sugar War: Europe’s Race for Colonial Profit
▷ 05:49 - Caribbean Plantations and the Conquest of Fertile Land
▷ 08:15 - Life and Death on the Sugar Plantations
▷ 10:08 - Banks, Insurance, and the Industrialization of the Slave Trade
▷ 14:20 - Europe’s Slave Ports: Nantes, Liverpool, Amsterdam and Beyond
▷ 16:00 - Louis XIV, Royal Power, and the Expansion of the Slave Trade
▷ 21:25 - The Gold Coast: A Major Source of Captives
▷ 23:40 - Antera Duke and the African Brokers of the Slave Trade
▷ 27:15 - The Middle Passage: Terror, Violence, and Survival at Sea
▷ 29:50 - Race, Dehumanization, and the Atlantic Slave System
▷ 33:05 - Plantation Violence and the Machinery of Exploitation
▷ 35:29 - The Black Codes: Slavery Written Into Law
▷ 37:29 - Slave Resistance, Maroons, and Caribbean Rebellions
▷ 41:44 - Olaudah Equiano and the Rise of Abolitionism in Europe
▷ 50:00 - Epilogue: Slavery, Wealth, and the Atlantic World
▷ 52:03 - Credits

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Original title: Slavery Routes: 1620-1789: From sugar to rebellion
Directed by: Daniel Cattier, Juan Gélas, Fanny Glissant
Produced by: Compagnie des Phares et Balises, ARTE France
In co-production with: Kwassa Films, RTBF Télévision Belge, Lx Filmes, RTP, INRAP

© 2018, licensed by Incognita Distribution

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