La esclavitud en la Edad Media

Cualquiera que visite hoy la ventosa costa de la bahía de Epaves, en el extremo norte de Terranova, difícilmente percibirá la enorme importancia del modesto yacimiento arqueológico que alberga. Allí, en L’Anse aux Meadows (nombre que probablemente es una referencia distorsionada ...  Show more

En 1785 partió de Francia una de las expediciones científicas y de exploración más exitosas del siglo XVIII. Hasta que tres años después su pista se perdió en medio del Pacífico. 

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 ...  Show more

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this episode, we discuss the notion of the barbaroi in Greek culture; the origins and philosophical theories for slavery; and the legal status and type of roles (and importance) that slaves and metics (foreign residents) had in the Athenian ec ...

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 ...  Show more

The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was an uprising of over ten thousand enslaved people in the Crown colony of Demerara-Essequibo (now part of Guyana) on the coast of South America. Having grown tired of their servitude, the enslaved sought to resist in the most direct way they co ...