La esclavitud en la Edad Media

En 1717 Felipe V decidió trasladar a Cádiz la Casa de la Contratación, el organismo que gestionaba el comercio americano. Los sevillanos trataron de oponerse. Así fue la lucha entre estas dos importantes ciudades por la hegemonía portuaria. 

En la cima del Capitolio, una de las siete colinas de Roma, se alzaba un gran templo dedicado a Júpiter. Enriquecido por ofrendas de romanos y extranjeros, el santuario fue escenario de actos políticos de gran relieve. 

Slavery was a grim but omnipresent reality across the Silk Road during the Middle Ages. Speaking to Emily Briffett, Claire Taylor unpacks the complex networks of enslavement that spanned from Ireland to China, revealing how – and why – human lives were traded alongside silks and ...  عرض المزيد

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of slavery in the Roman world, from its early conquests to the fall of the Western Empire. The system became so entrenched that no-one appeared to question it, following Aristotle's view that slavery was a natural state. Whole populations ...  عرض المزيد

Ancient Rome was powered by the blood, sweat and tears of millions of slaves. 

In this episode, we look at what life was like for really like people unlucky enough to be sold into slavery in Ancient Rome. 

The trans-Atlantic slave trade expanded greatly in the 18th century, growing from a relatively small enterprise to a global business that saw millions of African people clapped in irons, forced to undergo the tortuous Middle Passage and then sold at market in the Americas. Speaki ...  عرض المزيد