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Activities of the European Slave Trade
Dates:
1441-Portugal the first country to kidnap and sell African people
in Europe.
1481-Portugal rented land from a king whose kingdom was where Ghana
is today. The Portugese started building a trading fort and named it
Elmina. It took them 80 years to build Elmina. They began to buy
African prisoners of war from the king there. They put the prisoners of
war into the fort and when there were enough prisoners of war to fill a ship,
the Portuguese put them into a ship and took them to Portugal to be sold
at the slave market in Lisbon. Portugal traded in Benin in 1495 and in the
Congo in 1482.
1493-The Pope of the Catholic Church said it was all right for the
Portuguese to bring Africans there and sell them. He said it was good
to 'make servants out of infidel people.' He did not know that
the African people worshipped God, but in a different way from
Catholics. The Pope divided the world into two parts so that Portugal
could control the getting of Africans and the sale of Africans in
Europe--and so that Spain could control the taking of Africans to all
places in the 'new world.'
The King of Congo became a Christian and sent his sons to Portugal to
become Christians.Date Unknown.
1538-The Portugese brought Africans to Brazil to work as slaves
there. The Portuguese kept travelling around the coast of Africa and came
to the southeastern section after 1600.
1620-Portuguese at Zimbabwe and looking for gold. They took all
the gold they could find from Zimbabwe and destroyed the countryside
and civilization in doing this.
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