It covers the period from the fifth century BCE to the second half of the twentieth century and not only Ancient and Christian Europe but also the Islamic world and the Americas. Slavery in Classical ...

Perched on a high rock near Corinth are the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, which once housed a thousand prostitutes.

Societies such as Ancient Greece and Rome had enslaved people. The Romans and Greeks had enslaved many peoples from different regions, whereas the transatlantic slave trade involved the mass ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its ...

Listen to Shaibu Inusah on the trade in Salaga The Portuguese ... to that of those in Africa and Europe. In ancient times a slave in North Africa, Greece or Rome, or in Arab countries, could ...

In ancient Greece ... food washed down with diluted Greek wine. The feast itself was the prelude to the evening’s real purpose. Once appetites were sated, the slaves carried away the tables ...

Whenever some ancient, colossal structure is mentioned, I imagine it being built with slave labor. In my mind's eye, I see a brutal taskmaster whipping the back of an overworked slave who has ...