Catalonia and the slave-trade legacy: Was there slavery on Catalan soil?
Mon 5 Oct, 18:30 · Biblioteca El Poble-sec – Francesc Boix, Carrer de Blai 34, Sants-Montjuïc, Barcelona · Barcelona
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About this event
The opening session of a four-part library series confronting Catalonia's own role in Atlantic slavery. Iván Armenteros Martínez of the CSIC's Milà i Fontanals institution asks the uncomfortable local question first: were people enslaved here, in Catalan towns, and what happened to them? Academic rigour, plain language, free entry on Carrer Blai.
Why we picked it
A city confronting its own slave-trade history in public, with CSIC researchers, across four free library sessions in October.
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Free entry — 'Entrada: Gratuïta' on the library's activity page. Limited capacity ('Aforament limitat').
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limited capacity — no ticket, seating capped
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