Talk 'Catalonia and the slave footprint. Was there slavery in Catalan lands?', with Iván Armenteros Martínez (Milà i Fontanals Institution-CSIC)

Slavery is a universal institution that was also present in Catalan lands. The first vestiges that tell us about the presence of enslaved people in our country date back to the 6th century. But it was, above all, from the 13th century that slavery became a widespread phenomenon. This talk will present the main phases and characteristics of medieval and modern slavery, as well as its incidence in Catalonia and other territories of the former Crown…