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Humanity saw its greatest tragedy when the exploration ships sailed out of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Spreading their sails to the friendly wind and ocean tides, they scoured the West African shores looking for profitable human catch. They continued to sail southward looking for safe harbors and secure central markets for 30 years. They arrived in Guinea in 1446, Cape Verde in 1460, and Sao Tome in 1471. The Portuguese led the way to enslavement and the slave trade in Africa. They crossed its center from the west to the east, from Angola to Mozambique, and crossed the Atlantic to Brazil and the Caribbean islands.
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Notes
Jack Gratus. The Great White Lie: Slavery, Emancipation and Changing Racial Attitudes (London: Hutchinson, 1973), 106.
Theodore Canot and Brantz Mayer, Captain Canot, or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver: Being an Account of His Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies (New York: D. Appleton and company, 1854).
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Nugud, M.I. (2013). Pioneers of Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Africa. In: Slavery in the Sudan. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137286031_3
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