The slave trade out of West Africa eventually made Ribeira Grande (present-day Cidade Velha) in Santiago one of the wealthiest cities in the Portuguese empire. In addition to trading posts, Portugal established colonies on previously uninhabited Atlantic African islands that would later serve as collection points for captives and commodities to

The Atlantic slave trade has been called the triangular trade because it had three stages that roughly form the shape of a triangle when viewed on a map. The first stage began in Europe, where manufactured goods such as metals, cloth, guns, and spirits were loaded onto ships bound for ports on the African coast.
In these ports, English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, and Swedish traders and sea captains bargained with African slave traders for their captives. Some African city-states and kingdoms became wealthy from the slave trade, and their rulers protested only if their own people were taken.
The Europeans traded in slaves, sugar, pepper, ivory, wax, and gold during this period. The trade in gold was a major factor in the expansion of European interest in West Africa. Gold from West Africa, Ghana in particular, represented 1/10th of the world's gold reserve in the early part of the sixteenth century (Boahen, 1986).

The National Library of Jamaica holds a number of materials on the slave trade, dating as far back as 1671 and publications from each century thereafter. The slave trade has been the subject of extensive scholarship; confronting issues such as the number of Africans transported to the Americas and the social, economic and political effects of

Opening on 21 January 2023, the new International African American Museum will include ways for Black Americans to research their ancestry. Gadsden’s Wharf, in Charleston, South Carolina, was
By Andrew Glass. 02/05/2017 11:53 PM EST. On this day in 1820, the first organized group of emigrating freed slaves departed from New York to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The enterprise
New York and the Slave Trade, 1700 to 1774 James G. Lydon 4tr aditional stereotype of the slave trade is that of the Yankee captains /j who loaded their vessels in Boston or Newport, sailed off to Africa to LI Xdeal in human cargo, and then raced disease, malaise, and the danger of mutiny to markets in the plantation colonies. The slave trade as
More than twelve million people crossed from Africa to the New World as slaves. Historians know a good deal about the African ports where they embarked, the slave ships that carried them across .
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