His voice shaking with rage and bitterness, an old man sitting by the West African water’s edge tells his grandson how fellow men and women were seized from their daily lives, uprooted from their native soil, herded like cattle into stinking ships, and—deprived of their families, their homes, their very history—sold into slavery to make the New World fertile and prosperous for its owners. (26 minutes)

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