1492: Black Portuguese Jews Source (Hibernian Magazine) (jan 1, 1492 – jan 1, 1493)

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“The discovery of the Gold Coast served, indeed, yet more to enlarge the sphere of the navigation of the Portuguese, than their slave trade; but it forced them also to extend themselves on the coasts; and to settle colonies in Congo, Angola, and other places, which they had till then neglected. Prince Henry’s colonies were enlarged by his successors. King John II. In 1492, expelled all the Jews to the island of St. Thomas, which had been discovered in 1471, and to other Portuguese settlements on the continent of Africa; and from these banished Jews, the black Portuguese, as they are called, and the Jews in Loango, who are despised by the very Negroes, are descended.”

Note: The text seems to say the Negroes are descended from the black Portuguese Jews, but the way the sentence is worded lacks full clarity. An alternative explanation may be that the author is saying the black Portuguese Jews are descended from Negroes.


Source:
The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge

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