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Episode fourteen - the history of Africans as both the enslaved and the enslavers.

Exploring the controversial issue of slavery in pre-colonial Africa and whether it contributed to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.

"The people who developed these forms of un-free labour in west Africa weren't thinking 'oh well if I do it that way then when the British or the Portuguese arrive, we'll be able to turn it into something else', they were just managing labour questions using the resources that they had." Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American Studies, Harvard.

Presented by Hugh Quarshie.