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Sultan Baybars (Mamluk, 13th Century)
Season 1 Episode 20
Sultan Baybars started his life as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe and ended it as the ruler of the most powerful state in the Islamic world. Slavery - …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Sultan Baybars (Mamluk, 13th Century)
Season 1 Episode 20
Sultan Baybars started his life as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe and ended it as the ruler of the most powerful state in the Islamic world. Slavery - …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Freedmen, Work, and Race in Colonial Philadelphia: Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers
Season 1 Episode 18
My dear friend Professor Keith Pluymers joins me to discuss a man listed in a Philadelphia city account book as "Negro Joe," and we try to reconstruc…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Freedmen, Work, and Race in Colonial Philadelphia: Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers
Season 1 Episode 18
My dear friend Professor Keith Pluymers joins me to discuss a man listed in a Philadelphia city account book as "Negro Joe," and we try to reconstruc…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Season 1 Episode 16
Saint Patrick is one of the most famous individuals who lived in the late Roman Empire, but long before he became the apostle of the Irish, he was a …
7 months ago
Saint Patrick, Slavery, and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Season 1 Episode 16
Saint Patrick is one of the most famous individuals who lived in the late Roman Empire, but long before he became the apostle of the Irish, he was a …
7 months ago
Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, Second Century AD)
Season 1 Episode 14
On May 24th, 166 AD, a seven-year-old boy was sold for the price of 200 denarii in the city of Seleucia Pieria. How did Abbas get there, and what hap…
7 months, 1 week ago
Eurysaces’ Bakers and the Hell of Roman Industry
Season 1 Episode 12
Standing just outside Rome's Porta Maggiore is a unique funeral monument to a successful baking entrepreneur named Eurysaces, who was proud of his oc…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Crixus: Gladiators, the Spartacus Rebellion, and Resisting Slavery
Season 1 Episode 11
The Spartacus Rebellion is one of the most famous events in all of human history, told and retold time and again. But how and why did it happen, and …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Terence, Slavery, and Ancient Rome's First Literature
Season 1 Episode 9
Terence was one of ancient Rome's most popular playwrights and a founder of Latin literature, read by schoolchildren for centuries to come. He had al…
8 months ago