Easy Podcast - Juan de Sesa: The slave that became Spain's first Black professor - Easy Español

Easy Podcast - Juan de Sesa: The slave that became Spain's first Black professor - Easy Español

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March 5, 2026 · 15 min

About this episode

The episode explores the remarkable life of Juan de Sesa, also known as Juan Latino, who became Spain's first Black professor and broke numerous barriers in the Spanish Renaissance.

Better known as Juan Latino , Juan de Sesa was a man ahead of his time. He was raised in slavery as the page to the heir of a noble Spanish family but he grew to be a free man, poet, writer and highly-respected Latin professor in the University of Granada. As an Afro-European man he broke countless of barriers, such as being the only recognized Black writer of the Spanish Renaissance, the first Black university professor in the Western world, and forming one of the first legal mixed-race marriages in Spain. Click play now to hear the remarkable life story of Juan Latino, the beloved Black scholar that was almost erased from our history books.

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Host: Easy Español

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Organizations: University of Granada

Places: Spain

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