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This is the story of a world whose territories and own frontiers were built by the slave trade. A world where violence, subjugation and profit imposed their routes.
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Episode 1
52 mins
476 - 1375: Beyond the desert: 476 AD. Rome falls under the pressure of the barbarian invasions. On its ruins the Arabs founds an empire stretching from the banks of the Indus to south of the Sahara, developing a long-term slave trade network between Africa and the Middle-East, centred on the cities of Cairo and Timbuktu.





