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dec 31, 1650 - Spain and Portugal lead slave trade

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Portugal started the European slave trade with Africa. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal sent a trading expedition to Africa, to explore the little known continent 1444, a ‘cargo’ of 235 enslaved Africans had been brought to Lagos in Portugal. The Portuguese were using enslaved Africans on sugar plantations

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dec 31, 1650
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~ 374 years ago

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