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Who were the first people to explore Africa and set up slave trading post

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I am pretty sure the Portuguese did this

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It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search of gold. The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron, who hoped to bring riches to Portugal
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