Race in Early Modern England pp 139-140 | Cite as
Duarte Lopes (fl. 1578–89)
A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa. And of countries that border rounde about the same …, translated by Abraham Hartwell (London: John Wolfe, 1597), 13–14, 18–19.
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The Portuguese merchant Duarte Lopes provided one of the earliest European descriptions of Central Africa. In 1578, he became the ambassador of Congo’s King Alvaro II to the pope and to Philip II of Spain. He argued for the Congo’s need for missionaries and for the advantages of free trade. His papers were published by Fillipo Pigafetta (1533–1604) in 1591, and remained one of the chief sources for information concerning central Africa up to the middle of the nineteenth century.
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