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SLAVERY AND THE SILK ROAD

Professor Susan Whitfield reveals what we know about slavery along the famous trade routes

Susan Whitfield is Professor in Silk Road Studies at the University of East Anglia and Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She is a former curator at the British Library and the author of several books, including Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road (University of California Press, 2018).

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