Talk 'Catalonia and the slave footprint. The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies', with Adrià Enríquez Àlvaro (National University of Distance Education)

Twelve and a half million people were kidnapped and transported from the African continent to the Americas over a period of 350 years. During this period of time, there were extensive social, institutional, demographic, reproductive and cultural changes that affected a multitude of African societies. We will analyze the impacts and main transformations that developed within various African societies as a result of the Atlantic slave trade. In an environment of violence…