The Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade
From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: History of Slavery.
The dawn of globalization. video-lesson by Ugo Fabietti, one of the greatest Italian anthropologists
In the Middle Ages, new forms of exploitation slowly replaced slavery, such as serfdom, whose term (lat.servus, slave) designates the condition of dependence of a farmer who binds him to the land on which he resides and to a master. This condition concerns men or women who do not enjoy personal liberties, they belonged to a gentleman and were bound to the gleba, or to the land they cultivated (peasants). Its origin goes back to the last centuries of the Roman Empire, when a class of farmers was created, still legally free.
Bologna was the first city in the world to abolish slavery and free the serfs through the enactment of the “Liber Paradisus”.
Slave trips to the East.
The Atlantic passage.
The enslavement of the natives in colonial America. From Joshua J. Mark, translate by Alfonso Vincenzo Mauro
We are all citizens of the world
The film draws a parallel – between similarities and differences – between the two eras, asking the following questions: why, after all, has nothing changed? Today, migrants ignore the dangers of travel, the warning of those who have already attempted the crossing, the political and administrative reality in the country of arrival. By continuing to spend a fortune to risk your life in the waters of the Atlantic or the Mediterranean.