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Easy Podcast - Juan de Sesa: The slave that became Spain's first Black professor - Easy Español
Better known as Juan Latino, Juan de Sesa was a man ahead of his time. He was raised in slavery as the page to the heir of a noble Spanish family but he grew to be a free man, poet, writer and highly-respected Latin professor in the University of Granada. As an Afro-European man he broke countless of barriers, such as being the only recognized Black writer of the Spanish Renaissance, the first Black university professor in the Western world, and forming one of the first legal mixed-race marriages in Spain.
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