Every single history I've read about slavery indicates that the middle passage was orders of magnitude larger and more intense than pre-modern slave systems. T

Every single history I've read about slavery indicates that the middle passage was orders of magnitude larger and more intense than pre-modern slave systems. To the first comment: our world is changing. We are leaving the world system that was created around 1500. That said, we're still inside of it, and so social practices as manifestly illogical and inane as concentration camps ("prisons"), national borders, and the burning of carbon continue.