Sitting on the southern coast of Santiago, Cidade Velha, Cabo Verde’s oldest settlement, is an essential place to visit as it was a geographically important port for slave trading. Visit What part of Africa did slaves come from? West Central Africa The majority of all people enslaved in the New World came from West Central Africa. Before 1519, all Africans carried into the Atlantic disembarked at Old World ports, mainly Europe and the offshore Atlantic islands. Where do most African American come from? By Professor J. F. Ade Ajayi. "development remains elusive in Africa, not merely because of the misrule and warped personalities of many African leaders, but because Africa had been damaged severely, first by the slave trade, then by the colonialism which grew out of the slave trade." Africa's Development in Historical Perspective - August 2014. Since the publication of Douglas North’s Structure and Change in Economic History (1981), social scientists have accumulated an abundance of new evidence showing how institutions shape the structures and performance of economies as they move through time.

Lisbon was the major trade port involved in the African slave trade. From there, ships were sent to West Africa and took enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Portuguese-owned colonies of Brazil for plantation or mining work. As per the records, a total of 4,650,000 enslaved Africans were carried through the Portuguese ships.

v. t. e. Illustration from the posthumously published biography of Chloe Spear, showing her abduction in Africa as a child; Spear was enslaved in Massachusetts from 1761 to until 1783. Slavery was practiced in Massachusetts bay by Native Americans before European settlement, [1] and continued until its abolition in the 1700s. [2]
An act of Congress passed in 1800 made it illegal for Americans to engage in the slave trade between nations, and gave U.S. authorities the right to seize slave ships which were caught transporting slaves and confiscate their cargo. Then the "Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves" took effect in 1808. However, a domestic or "coastwise
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