The Dutch had been involved with the African slave trade for some time, having seized Portugal's Elmina Castle along the West African coast about two decades earlier. Soon after gaining control of ...

By the 15th century Portugal was comparable to many kingdoms in Africa, although possibly less ... And while they continued to benefit from the slave trade, they began to lose control of the ...

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 ...

Portuguese dominated the trade in the first 130 years but ... Each port, operated by the western merchants, had links to ...

Portugal’s president said late on Tuesday (Apr. 23) that his country was responsible for crimes committed during the transatlantic slave trade and ... dominions in Africa. It eventually ...

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 ...

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 ...

The decline of the slave trade and the opening of the ... Leonardo DiCaprio were shot in Mozambique. Portugal was reluctant to relinquish its African colonies until a 1974 coup made them rethink ...