How did the Portuguese benefit from the slave trade

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Astudentofmaths · Answer 1 · 2020-07-01T21:17:33+0000

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The Portuguese were using enslaved Africans on sugar plantations in Madeira, a Portuguese island off the west coast of Africa, by 1460. They built the first slave fort in 1481, on the coast of modern Ghana. This was Elmina Castle, the headquarters of the Portuguese slave traders. They were trading slaves for goods.

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