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The First Transatlantic Slaves Were Brought Through Here – Portuguese Cape Verde (African History)


Cape Verde was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde Islands in 1462 until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975.

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  6. Cape verde was a desert island when discovered by Portugal in 1460. By 1750 there was 50 000 inhabitants, so the slaves do not originate from cape verde.
    Cape verde was an outpost for slaves bought in senegambia region, the slaves stayed in cape verde enough time to be christianized and learn portuguese and then sent to Portugal or Spain (between 1450 and 1500) and to south america after 1500. After 1650 the French controled the island of Goree in Senegal which allowed them to bypass Cape verde island as an outpost for slave trafficking

    Fun fact, there was a quite relatively important slave community in Portugal and Spain. There are paintings from the 1500 and 1600 where you see families with african nurses. There are registries of church communities in Porto and Lisbon composed of african people. In the island of Madeira, there was 10% of african slaves working in sugar cane plantations.

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  8. During Portuguese colonial rule, many Cape Verdians were employed by the Portuguese government as civil servants in other African colonies like Guinea Bissau, São Tomé, Angola and even Mozambique. This was because Cape Verdians were considered Portuguese citizens thus having access to a better education. In 1975 many Cape Verdians opposed independence, prefering to be Portuguese citizens. However the left wing wave that spread across Portugal and its colonies made it almost impossible. Madeira and Azores however were spared, because of their whiteness. Left wingers again proving to be the most racists of all although the majority don’t think so. Cape Verde today is an example of Portuguese mulatto culture, they speak a Portuguese creole language and are basically much more Portuguese then African. Culturally, even their national music, the morna, is so much like the fado. Therefore Cape Verde, like Madeira and the Canary Islands, although situated in African waters, should be in Europe and not Africa.

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  9. Slave trade and multi-millionaire fortuneedit

    See also: Slavery in colonial Spanish America and First wave of European colonization

    Perez and his brother, Juan Bautista Perez, began involving themselves directly in the slave trade by travelling to Cacheu, Portuguese Guinea.[3] The Portuguese-born involved in the Atlantic slave trade conducted their business as individual private traders, rather than as part of state-owned joint-stock companies.[4] From around 1614, the Perez brothers were involved in bringing these African slaves to Cartagena de Indias, Viceroyalty of New Granada.[3] From 1595 until 1640, the Portuguese-born held the Asiento de Negros, a kind of monopoly contract to export African slaves to the colonies in Spanish Empire. The Portuguese had long established their influence in West Africa through trade and so the Spanish found it useful to simply lease out the rights to them instead of directly getting involved themselves. Significant figures such as asiento holders such as António Fernandes de Elvas and Manuel Rodrigues Lamego were also of Cristão-Novo converso or Marrano Jewish ancestry, like the Perez brothers and were able to enrich themselves greatly by their involvement in the trade of enslaved African people. Between 1613 and 1619, Pérez personally undertook two slave-trading ventures to Upper Guinea (what is today Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau).[4]

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  10. punishments, such as public flogging, humiliation and exile, while Perez was one of twelve sentenced to death by being burned alive at the stake in the largest auto-da-fé in history.[11] One of the Jews convicted committed suicide during the trial so was burned in effigy. Francisco Maldonado de Silva, a noted physician, was one of the other Jews who were burned at the same time as Perez (he had been in prison since 1628 and converted prisoners to Judaism).

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  11. Emanuel Lousada

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    Emanuel Lousada (26 December 1783—14 December 1854)[1] was a London-born Jewish merchant, slave plantation owner and public office holder with interests in Jamaica and Barbados. He was the High Sheriff of Devon from 1842 until 1843, making him the first Jew to hold the title in a county outside of the Sheriff of London,[2] which had been held first by David Salomons in 1835. Lousada was associated with Peak House, Sidmouth. Lousada owned more than 400 African slaves on his sugarcane plantations in the British West Indies at the time of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. He died a wealthy man, leaving £100,000 in his will (worth £10.1 million in 2023).[3][4]

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  12. Family lifeedit

    It is not known if Rodrigues de Lamego had any offspring, however, his siblings had many and some of them married into prominent families. This includes the Lousadas, a prominent Sephardic Jewish family who were involved in sugar plantations in the Caribbean as slave-owners in Jamaica and Barbados (both in the British West Indies) and then later relocated to London in the 18th century: a prominent example is Emanuel Lousada.[8] Other relatives were involved with prominent figures; Duarte Rodrigues de Lamego of Rouen was substantial creditor to Michael de Spinoza, the father of the excommunicated philosopher Baruch Spinoza.[8] In addition to this, the family provided many spies to the Portuguese government.[8]

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  13. Personal lifeedit

    António Fernandes de Elvas was married to Elena Rodrigues Solís, she, like her husband was of Marrano background.[2] This made Fernandes de Elvas the son-in-law of Jorge Rodrigues de Solís and the brother-in-law of Jerónimo Rodrigues de Solís; indeed Jerónimo worked under his brother-in-law in the slave trade in Cape Verde and Angola.[4] Their son Jorge Fernandes de Elvas was married to the daughter of Duarte Gomes Solís, an economics writer.[4] He also worked in the slave trade under his father as his agent at Cartagena de Indias, but squandered a lot of his family's wealth at parties in Madrid.[4] Even after the death of her husband, Elena continued to work in the slave trade. However, she failed to gain the asiento, working under her brother Francisco Gomes Solís in Cartagena de Indias.[4]

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  14. António Fernandes de Elvas

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    António Fernandes de Elvas (died 1623) was a Portuguese-born merchant, including investor in pepper tax farm and Asian spices.[1] Fernandes de Elvas and his family were Marranos;[2] that is to say Sephardic Jews who conformed outwardly as Cristão-Novo due to the demands of the Portuguese Crown but privately continued to adhere to Judaism. He was contracted by the Spanish Empire with an official asiento to provide their colonies in the Spanish Americas with African slaves from 27 September 1615 to 1 April 1623. During this time, he was the Contratodore (monopolist trader) for the Atlantic slave trade in Portuguese West Africa: Angola, Cape Verde and Guinea.[3] He was succeeded in his position as monopolist for providing slaves to the Spanish by a fellow Marrano, Manuel Rodrigues Lamego.

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  15. Lamego

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    Manuel Rodrigues de Lamego (born circa 1590) was a Portuguese-born merchant and slave trader active in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Rodrigues de Lamego was a Marrano.[1] He was contracted by the Spanish Empire with an official asiento to provide their colonies in the Spanish Americas with African slaves from 1 April 1623 to 25 September 1631. During this time, he was the Contratodore (monopolist trader) for the Atlantic slave trade in Angola's Portuguese West African territory.[2] Contrary to his predecessor as asiento holder, António Fernandes de Elvas, he was not the Contratodore for Cape Verde and Guinea. After his tenure, he was succeeded as asiento holder by Melchor Gómez Angel and Cristóvão Mendes de Sousa, while he was succeeded as Contratodore for Angola by Henrique Gomes da Costa.

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  19. EUROPEANS STARTED HUMAN TRAFFICKING .. SO WHY DO THEIR HISTORY MATTER AND WHY SHOULD THEY BE ABLE TO HOLD ON TO WEALTH THAT WAS STOLEN , SOMEONE EDUCATED , GIVE ME A SMART FUCKING ANSWER , OR EVERYTHING YOU OWN IS STOLEN , AND SHOULD BE RETURNED , EUROPE – ENGLAND ,FRANCE, SPAIN & AMERICA WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO STAND ON AND WOULD BE POOR… IT'S CALLED STOLEN WEALTH AND STOLEN HISTORY….

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  21. Don’t believe what they teach you in school ,American education is all a lie ,I don’t believe anything they told me after Christopher Columbus,Cape Verde was the main center for slave transport to Boston during the Atlantic slave trade ,and we got European ancestry,some of us got some French,German ,Spanish ancestry in us,some of us got blue eyes with dark skin,unique features from mixing different races together ,our language is derived from European and African dialect,some of our words sound similar to Spanish,slave owners during the slave trade came and raped /kidnapped people living in CV,not just portuguese but other European races as well,even Hitler had submarines parked underwater right along Cape Verde,during the slave trade,don’t believe the crap they feed you in America,most of that is a lie,I’m from this country and I’m saying this with confidence,my ancestors was raped and kidnapped and brought to America from Cape Verde not knowing where they were going and were practically wiped of their race,there’s many people living in America having no idea that if they go down their family tree they’ll find traces of Cape Verdean roots,many African Americans can’t even answer where their from or what country their ancestors came from besides saying their from “America” ,I’m not a genius on world history but I can sure tell you the truth,

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  26. I have a friend from Cape Verde. At the time I never heard of the country and since then I decided to study geography and world history. Its incredible how much we can learn about people if we put int the effort to learn.

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