Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga

BBC Two HD

11:10 PM to 12:10 AM

Tuesday 29 September

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Part two of two. The historian reveals how the end of the royal monopoly and the expansion of the trade was the pivotal moment in the story of the slave trade. In the 18th century, the trade in enslaved Africans reached its peak as it expanded out of the royal court to provincial towns and ports across the country, with thousands of new investors