S3, Ep : 36. Hidden Chains: The Untold Story of Slavery
Welcome back to Spanish Loops.
This week, we take on a subject that is as uncomfortable as it is essential: slavery.
Not just the version most people immediately associate with the Atlantic world, but a deeper, broader reality that stretches across civilizations and centuries.
Slavery has existed since the earliest organized societies.
In places like Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome, enslaved people were part of the economic and social fabric, building empires, serving elites, and sustaining entire systems of power.
Across the Islamic world, including Al-Andalus, slavery also…
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