🎧 Asylum on Saint Helena
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 11m
Annina Van Neel showed me around Saint Helena, a small scrap of land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This island is the most significant physical trace of the Transatlantic slave trade middle passage.
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