Revolution and freedom hold different meanings to different people, and the history of the colonial world is no exception. This episode of American Capital explores the impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through data: how large it truly was, and what it looked like to those involved first-hand.

Along the way, we tie together the Haitian Revolution—arguably the only successful revolt of enslaved people in the New World—and the American Revolution. Ultimately asking: was there an "Age of Revolutions" occurring around the world, and were all of these fought under a common definition of "freedom?"

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Who: Aaron Lopez, Charles Leclerc, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, John Hancock, Joseph Miller, Napolean Bonaparte, Robert Paul Thomas, Thomas Jefferson, Toussaint Louverture

What: American Declaration of Independence, American Revolution, Dunmore's Proclamation, Haitian Declaration of Independence, Haitian Revolution, Louisiana Purchase, Navigation Acts, Stamp Act (1765), Slave Ship Brookes, Slave Ship Creole, Slave Ship Sally, Slave Ship Zong, Transatlantic Slave Trade

Where: British West Indies, Colonial Brazil, Haiti (Saint-Domingue), Indian Ocean, Middle Passage, The Thirteen Colonies, West Africa

Documents: "A Quantitative Approach to the Study of the Effects of British Imperial Policy Upon Colonial Welfare", SlaveVoyages.org, Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally