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Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade

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Paul Seabright explores the evolution of global trade in goods, people and ideas.

Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade: Series 1: Slavery

Slavery

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Paul Seabright examines the role of slave labour in the expansion of global trade.

Paul Seabright explores our trading past: the part slavery has played in the story of global trade. From 2018.

The exchange of human beings for work or sex or other forms of enslavement has been a feature of human society throughout history. 

Paul Seabright looks at the part slavery has played in the industrialisation of the western world, and in the lives of countless unsuspecting people who were captured and transported as a result of trading activity on the other side of the globe.

Producer: Chris Ledgard.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade: Series 1

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