- tools of the trade
We talk about about the year 1444 and its historical significance. Last night i read a very interesting article on Modern Ghana about the history of the gold coast slave trade, its time line from the early 1400’s and beyond to how it damaged africa for good. Its a interesting read.
“Just a bit of the hell the White race has put Africans through to become leaders of the world.
Portugal initiated the European movement of international expansion after their conquest of the Moorish stronghold of Ceuta in North Africa in 1415 CE. Emboldened by their unexpected success and determined to break the Islamic monopoly of trade with Africa and Asia, the Portuguese Prince, Henry the Navigator, who apparently never went to sea, using maps supplied by Jews who had been trading in gold in Northern and Western Africa through the Sahara, began to send Portuguese expeditions down the coast of West Africa, first to trade, then to establish Portuguese holding posts. Until that time, most Whites thought the world was flat and the Portuguese also wanted to prove or disprove this.
European enslavement of Africans began in 1441 CE, when a Portuguese captain, “commissioned’ by his sovereign, Prince Henry the Navigator, seized a couple of Berbers off the West Coast of the Sahara. Prince Henry used slaves to work and populate Cape Verde, Fernandi Po (now Bioko) and Sao Tome, and took others home, particularly to the region of the Tagus River. Four years later, the Portuguese were building a fort on Arguin Island, off Mauritania, to hijack the caravan of gold travelling to Morocco, and to acquire slaves. This was to fulfill the needs of southern Europe, where slavery had survived in the Roman Empire in domestic activities, and in certain pockets of intensive agriculture, such as sugar production…
