Portuguese Involvement in The African Slave Trade

Portuguese enslave Africans from the Barbary Coast

Portugal obtains papal permission to continue the slave trade, as long as the slaves are converted to Catholicism

Henry the Navigator lands a slave ship in Lagos

Slaves are promised freedom for military service during Portuguese Succession Crisis

Slavery is abolished in Portugal

First Portuguese slave fort built in modern-day Ghana

First encounter with the Kingdom of Kongo

Luanda Island established as a trade port

Approximately 10,000 African slaves arrive annually in Portugal

150,000 slaves sent to Brazil