1455
Portuguese in Africa
Portugal was given rights by Pope Nicholas V to territories along the West African coast along with trade in those areas. This gave them the right to invade, raid, and subject their people to a lifetime of slavery.
Portugal was given rights by Pope Nicholas V to territories along the West African coast along with trade in those areas. This gave them the right to invade, raid, and subject their people to a lifetime of slavery.
Portugal had a holding on trade in West Africa while Spain held the rights in the New World which they colonized to explore for land and gold. These divisions were decided by the Roman Catholic Church.
Spain had set sale of their first shipment of enslaved Africans which landed in the Island of Hispaniola. Over the next century and a half, to gain geopolitical and economic power, the Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English then joined in with their slavery systems within American territories. This is well known as the Atlantic Slave trade.
This day marked the first documentation of about 20 Africans stolen from Africa and enslaved, arriving in Jamestown, Virginia.
The Africans that were brought were from present-day Angola, located on the western Atlantic Coast of Southern Africa. Around that time though, those Africans were from the kingdom of Ndongo in which they spoke Kimbundu.
But this was not the start of this practice.
