The Transatlantic Slave Trade: What Schools Left Out

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Start the timeline at the wrong date and the whole story tilts. We rewind the Atlantic narrative to 1415 and 1441—when Ceuta fell to Portugal and the first captives were seized from Mauritania after Europeans failed to tap West Africa’s gold—and we follow the money, the maps, and the names that made an economy out of people.

With Mariel Smith L, a journalist‑turned‑educator grounded in Moorish history, we trace the trans‑Saharan networks that linked Morocco to Timbuktu, Gao, and the Akan fields, and how Moorish agricultural know‑how in Iberia taught Europe to industrialize sugar, cotton, rice, and indigo. We dive into papal bulls that sanctified perpetual servitude, the Inquisition’s turn from “Moor” to “Morisco,” and the quiet paperwork that swapped “Moor” for “Indian” in colonial ledgers. A 1721 English map labeled “Negroland” becomes a smoking gun: cartography as racial policy. Along the way, we surface early resistance erased from schoolbooks, including the 1522 Wolof revolt in Hispaniola and maroon traditions that prefigure later revolutions.

This conversation makes a clear case: nationality and legal status moved in lockstep. Strip nationality, and the law can render a person “property.” Restore historical context, and agency returns: trade routes, schools, treaties, and family archives that carry Moorish identity across centuries. We also unpack how Indigenous enslavement in the Americas was reclassified under the floating label “Negro,” revealing how race operated as a flexible tool for dispossession. If you’ve only heard 1619, you’re missing the prologue—and the prologue changes everything.

Listen for a method you can use to read colonial records critically, connect precolonial polities like Oyo and Dahomey to coastal wars and captives, and rethink how names shaped power. If this expanded timeline and lens helped you see more, share the episode, subscribe for new drops, and leave a review with the biggest idea you’re taking forward.

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