Pedro Tafur 5: Doomed Empires and Slavery on the Black Sea

Pedro Tafur ventures out from Constantinople to visit a sultan, an emperor, and the centre of the Black Sea slave trade.

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Sources:

• Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439), translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926.
• Barker, Hannah. That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
• Gregory, Timothy E. A History of Byzantium. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

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