Africans in America; Interview with Barry Unsworth, Author, "The Sacred Hunger"
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Barry Unsworth is interviewed about the economies of Europe, first British slave trader John Hawkins, the brutality of life, indentured servants, rise in slaving a response to the increased demand for sugar and tobacco, desperation of European slave traders, how slave traders kept control of the ship with fear, the Middle Passage, the threat of fasting during the Middle Passage, economic damage to African interior, impact of slavery, inhumanity.
