Under the so-called 'Columbian Exchange' trade with Indigenous people - both forced and voluntary - was big business and it changed the fashions and diets of Europe. However, it also led to the erasure of the Indigenous roots of many goods and an understanding of their value within Indigenous communities.

Written by Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock
Read by Maggie Service

Abridged by Laurence Wareing
Produced by Naomi Walmsley Show less