Discuss the role of the Portuguese in the slave trade.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- After Bartholomeu Dias's exploration of the west coast of Africa, it did not take long for European and African traders to extend existing practices of human exploitation that were common on both continents.
- The Portuguese exploitation of African labor was financed principally by a Florentine banker together with a group of financiers from Genoa.
- Over the course of four centuries, the Portuguese transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic on the Middle Passage, which connected Africa to the Americas
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