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On your mask. Yes, sir. Bye. We're back in the nation's favorite tent. Let's do this. And it's

packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.

As long as it's edible, I'd be happy.

Don't chalk, trying my key.

How can it be?

The great celebrity baker for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4.

Stream now.

This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

This week, a class on the origins of the slave trade to the Americas between 1640 and the early 1800s.

It's taught by University of Pittsburgh history professor Marcus Redeker and was recorded in 2010.

Okay, everybody, greetings. Good morning. Our subject for today is the Atlantic slave trade.

And the first thing I want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject,

and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. Its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era.

And by that I mean essentially three things.

First, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the Atlantic, beginning in the late

16th century and continuing thereafter to the present.

Secondly, the establishment of European dominance around the world.

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