It is clear to many the impact that the slave trade had for Europe and the Americas, helping them to grow rich and to finance the Industrial Revolution. In Europe, a middle class began to emerge, enjoying greater leisure time, drinking tea and coffee with sugar, indulging in chocolate, exotic spices, fabrics and stories of travel and adventure in foreign lands. In the Caribbean and Americas, we know that Indigenous people experienced unspeakable decimation and disease, almost wiped out as lush landscapes were broken into plantation land upon which African slaves harvested sugar, cotton, tobacco, rice and many other crops that were quickly becoming essentials in Europe. But the story that is less well known, barely touched upon in comparison even to the lives of slaves once they made landfall…