Question

3 - It is said that in 1466, the Portuguese settlers are granted a monopoly on the "new slave trade". If that slave trade in Cape Verde was a new one, which other slave commerce examples are mentioned in the timeline? Specify when they happened, where they were, and who were the people involved in it.

Answer 1

The timeline shows others slave trades that began in Ireland, Spain and Italy during the past centuries. These countries enslaved many peoples of territories like North Africa and Mediterranean.

The slave trade in Ireland, according to the timeline, began in 1200 and spread throughout Mediterranean territory. In 1400, began a new slave trade in Italy, in provinces like Venice, which envolved enslaved Greeks and Eastern Europeans. In 1450, the slave trade was concentrated in Spain, which receveid 1000 slaves per year in its territory.