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America's Long Struggle against SlaveryThe American slave trade begins in Africa; African rulers and merchants play a hand in supplying slaves to Europeans; the first strategies of resistance; defensively trying to elude capture; offensive efforts to get away from the hellish confinement.

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Now PlayingAmerica's Long Struggle against SlaveryThe American slave trade begins in Africa; African rulers and merchants play a hand in supplying slaves to Europeans; the first strategies of resistance; defensively trying to elude capture; offensive efforts to get away from the hellish confinement.0America's Long Struggle against SlaveryLeaving the continent of Africa, the second place for resistance is aboard the slave ships as they depart for the Caribbean; this episode explores the suicides, runaways and revolts on slave ships; the efforts by Europeans to control the enslaved.