History Lesson 3 Shackled Shipped Sold

They told you slavery was a tragedy.
A sad chapter.
A mistake.

It was never a mistake.
It was design.
It was business.
It was profit wrapped in chains.

History Lesson 3 — Shackled, Shipped, Sold delivers a spoken word performance that exposes the brutal reality of the transatlantic slave trade. Bongos echo like heartbeats while congos roll like waves, pulling listeners into the holds of the ships. Millions of African men, women, and children were captured, chained in darkness, and sold into generations of forced labor.

This isn’t the history schools chose to teach. This is truth: the wealth of America and Europe grew from stolen bodies and stolen futures.

Presented by Baldy’s Music Group, this lesson continues a series that breaks silence and reveals the lies still shaping the world today.