-The exact date when the first slave was captured and sold was 1441 AD.
-Young Portuguese sailor named Ahtam Goncalvez captured a man and a woman on the Western Sahara coast whom he presented to Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese king, thus setting off a chain of reaction in the trade.
-The Portuguese built a fort on the Arguin Island on the coast of Mauritania in 1445 which was used as a base for buying slaves and Gold. The suppliers of the slaves at the fort were the Moors.
-The Portuguese ventured into the gold coast in search of gold in 1471. They built a fort at Elmina in 1482.
-The Portuguese then established trading contacts with the king of Congo who even accepted Christianity and Portuguese culture. (He baptized his son Afonso Bemba Nzinga)
-By 1500AD, the Portuguese established sugar plantations in the island of Sao Tome near modern Gambia. --They relied on slave labour from Gambia.
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