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 ...

It also had the distinction of being the first of many permanent "slave factories" (trading posts that dealt in slaves) that would be built along ... the slave trade, including the Portuguese ...

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 ...

Figures for the Spanish and Portuguese colonies are less ... happened - that means that if there had been no slave trade the population of Africa in 1850 would have been 50 million instead of ...

Analysis - A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave ...

(His place of death remains unknown.) His birth coincided with Portugal tightening its grip on the slave trade in west central Africa. This trade’s brutal effects defined his early childhood and ...

However, the African slave trade was never predicated upon race. Before the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Portuguese navigators who were in pursuit of precious metals embarked on a ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

The Portuguese used to come every year ... However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and relations between African rulers ...