Stefan gives one of the better general introductions to the enslavement of blacks in the U.S., which seems to be the only one of the many forms of slavery practiced throughout human history that matters to today’s addled brain.

The only objections I have are:

1) That Stefan bought the standard “indentured servant” lie promulgated since the late 1800s,

2) and that he seems to think that the reluctance of black slaves to attempt escape—which most did not—was due to a risk calculation on their part, rather than to their subservient nature, for which they had been purposefully selected over the violent white slaves that occupied this same station. As the Irish and Scottish and English slaves continued to revolt, slave masters expanded their trade in the more expensive, but more tractable, African slave.

His major source seems to have been Hugh Thomas, who was one of my main sources.

In the second video Stefan does skip the return to direct slave ownership resulting from the enclosure movement and goes directly to what followed the relapse to a Roman like model implemented in overseas colonies.