By the 15th century Portugal was comparable to many kingdoms in Africa, although possibly less ... And while they continued to benefit from the slave trade, they began to lose control of the ...
The Dutch had been involved with the African slave trade for some time, having seized Portugal's Elmina Castle along the West African coast about two decades earlier. Soon after gaining control of ...
1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas. It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in ...
Initially, European trade with Africa did not specialise in enslaved ... Enslaved Africans being transported to a Portuguese slave ship. Millions of Africans enslaved and held in slave fortresses ...
Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...
Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...
Portuguese dominated the trade in the first 130 years but ... Each port, operated by the western merchants, had links to slave traders in the African hinterland to ensure a constant stream of ...
Helena Monteiro da Costa’s father was brought from Angola to Brazil as a slave in the 19th century. Next year the 99-year-old hopes she can take part in a first-of-its-kind cruise making the ...
The rugged coastlines of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape conceal secrets beneath the waves mdash;secrets that challenge longstanding narratives about South Africa rsquo;s past .