The First Transatlantic Slaves Were Brought Through Here - Portuguese Cape Verde (African History)

Cape Verde was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde Islands in 1462 until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975.
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[@MrSupernova111]

I have a friend from Cape Verde. At the time I never heard of the country and since then I decided to study geography and world history. Its incredible how much we can learn about people if we put int the effort to learn.

[@michaelmatisse2808]

Cape verde was a desert island when discovered by Portugal in 1460. By 1750 there was 50 000 inhabitants, so the slaves do not originate from cape verde. Cape verde was an outpost for slaves bought in senegambia region, the slaves stayed in cape verde enough time to be christianized and learn portuguese and then sent to Portugal or Spain (between 1450 and 1500) and to south america after 1500. After 1650 the French controled the island of Goree in Senegal which allowed them to bypass Cape verde island as an outpost for slave trafficking Fun fact, there was a quite relatively important slave community in Portugal and Spain. There are paintings from the 1500 and 1600 where you see families with african nurses. There are registries of church communities in Porto and Lisbon composed of african people. In the island of Madeira, there was 10% of african slaves working in sugar cane plantations.

[@queenswisdom3365]

Great content 👍🏾 This is most helpful for those researching family history.

[@michaelmatisse2808]

Cape Verde was desert in 1460 when Portugal took control of it, so your family does not come from Cape Verde. All African people in Capeverde come from Senegambian slaves so look for your family roots there

[@WalkmanYT]

Thank you for uploading, this seems to be the best history video about Cape Verde, do you have any other resources about the country's colonial history?

[@MadeInHistory]

I’m not planning to make any Cape Verde videos myself but The Portuguese in west Africa by Newitt and the Portuguese Empire by Russell wood are good sources. After my current series I might make videos about the Portuguese colonization of São Tomé and principe and others in that region

[@bagboy8617]

I just found my home country 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻was used as one of the main centers for the Atlantic slave trade

[@glitbow7630]

Yes a lot of blk Americans are learning this. I might travel there

[@yusefnegao]

@@glitbow7630thus has very little to do with black Americans

[@keltonkennedy6925]

@@yusefnegaoyes it does we are all the same people WE ARE AFRICANS

[@yusefnegao]

Nope it doesn’t you have no connection to Cape Verde

[@keltonkennedy6925]

@@yusefnegao Cape Verde was literally the center of slave trades… every African that came from deep in Africa passed by Cape Verde others never left

[@ComingToAfrica]

Have you found any sources that mention the names of the enslaved on Cape Verde?

[@afonsodias871]

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[@michaelmatisse2808]

not possible to know because the cape verde were desert island. Portuguese brought slaves from Senegambia to cape verde and then dispatched them first to Portugal and Spain (between 1450 and 1500) and then to south america (after discovery 1500 to 1650). Then aorund 1650 France controlled Goree island in Senegal and it allowed them to bypass cape verde.

[@culturalrebirth6048]

Great video! I was wondering What is your sources for saying that there were 14000 enslaved Africans and 1600 Portuguese and mixed people?

[@MadeInHistory]

Thank you! This was a while back but I believe I got the information from either capeverdeislands.org/history or capeverde.com/about/history There’s also a book called ‘The Portuguese in West Africa’ by Malyn Newitt. It might also be in there

[@michaelmatisse2808]

In fact there was regular census in cape verde. So they kept track of the population. Keep in mind that Cape Verde islands were an outpost so these 14000 slaves were afterwards sent to portugal or to south america within a year. They did not stay in cape verde. In addition cape verde was and still is arid with almost no water source and no agricultural land so there was very limited use of slaves in cape verde itself. From the census of 1731 it says, population is 30 397, whites were 785, mixed race 8 859, blacks 20 753 (of which 15 521 were freeman and 5 232 were slaves) From the census of 1807 it says, population is 58 431, whites were 1 752, mixed race 24 250, blacks 32 429 (of which 27 290 were freeman and 5 139 were slaves)

[@prettypurple7175]

Family lifeedit It is not known if Rodrigues de Lamego had any offspring, however, his siblings had many and some of them married into prominent families. This includes the Lousadas, a prominent Sephardic Jewish family who were involved in sugar plantations in the Caribbean as slave-owners in Jamaica and Barbados (both in the British West Indies) and then later relocated to London in the 18th century: a prominent example is Emanuel Lousada.[8] Other relatives were involved with prominent figures; Duarte Rodrigues de Lamego of Rouen was substantial creditor to Michael de Spinoza, the father of the excommunicated philosopher Baruch Spinoza.[8] In addition to this, the family provided many spies to the Portuguese government.[8]

[@laniqueharris7714]

Why the pic of slaves are always painting

[@prettyboyterianoabioye4833]

They don’t have any photos of them back then cameras didn’t exist im assuming my sister

[@CrociatoAzzurro]

Grow a brain.

[@wegotnext8994]

They completely skipped over the part where the Jews didn’t come to west Africa they were exiled their as slaves and lancandos came later and were the children and descendants of the Jews exiled brought up in Christian homes this is all documented

[@polonrepy2599]

The Jews were never slaves in Cape Verde, they were exiled to be colonizers and merchants, they were the ones practicing the enslavement sir. Where is documented the Jews were slaves in Cape Verde?

[@wegotnext8994]

@@polonrepy2599 I never mentioned Cape Verde But to answer ur question John Ogilby documented it It’s documented in the Jews and moors of spain and Portugal It’s also documented in the libre negro of the inquisition

[@wegotnext8994]

@@polonrepy2599 they were sent to Angola Brazil Guinea São Tomé as well Cape Verde

[@wegotnext8994]

@@polonrepy2599 Tudor Parfitt said it out his own mouth kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6imXpWYZcx9fpY

[@polonrepy2599]

@@wegotnext8994 you mentioned West Africa, under a Cape Verde video, so I assume you speaking about Cape Verde also. Anyway thank you for the information. But when you say slaves it may come out as if they were at the same social position as those Africans which were enslaved which is not the case. Same thing happens when people try to say that Irish people were slaves in the Caribbean but no, they where servants, which is veryyy close of being a slave but not exactly the same thing.

[@guleet75]

The first transatlantic slave trade started in West Coast of Africa in the 1400,s !

[@imgunnarr]

As is well documented the Portuguese were traders first, the first transatlantic slaves were traded in by the warring African tribes (that would enslave each other) for other items such as metal and clothes, among other manufactured goods. Despite how a lot of people depict them, the Portuguese were hardly the cruelest of "colonizers". They were traders that set up trade posts, didn't invade and venture inland. And straight up bought land off local government for most of their trade posts like in India and Japan. This is one of the main reasons the Portuguese got so far so fast, they weren't wasting time invading and warring locals, they had a goal and were in pursuit of it. Also one of the main reasons why Portuguese "colonies" or as they called them provinces were so easily overrun by the Dutch and English when Portugal and Spain shared a king, dragging Portugal into Spain's wars.

[@prettypurple7175]

António Fernandes de Elvas Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit António Fernandes de Elvas (died 1623) was a Portuguese-born merchant, including investor in pepper tax farm and Asian spices.[1] Fernandes de Elvas and his family were Marranos;[2] that is to say Sephardic Jews who conformed outwardly as Cristão-Novo due to the demands of the Portuguese Crown but privately continued to adhere to Judaism. He was contracted by the Spanish Empire with an official asiento to provide their colonies in the Spanish Americas with African slaves from 27 September 1615 to 1 April 1623. During this time, he was the Contratodore (monopolist trader) for the Atlantic slave trade in Portuguese West Africa: Angola, Cape Verde and Guinea.[3] He was succeeded in his position as monopolist for providing slaves to the Spanish by a fellow Marrano, Manuel Rodrigues Lamego.

[@guleet75]

The first slaves where kidnapped from the west coast of Africa by the Portuguese in the early 1400's !

[@TimSerras]

During Portuguese colonial rule, many Cape Verdians were employed by the Portuguese government as civil servants in other African colonies like Guinea Bissau, São Tomé, Angola and even Mozambique. This was because Cape Verdians were considered Portuguese citizens thus having access to a better education. In 1975 many Cape Verdians opposed independence, prefering to be Portuguese citizens. However the left wing wave that spread across Portugal and its colonies made it almost impossible. Madeira and Azores however were spared, because of their whiteness. Left wingers again proving to be the most racists of all although the majority don’t think so. Cape Verde today is an example of Portuguese mulatto culture, they speak a Portuguese creole language and are basically much more Portuguese then African. Culturally, even their national music, the morna, is so much like the fado. Therefore Cape Verde, like Madeira and the Canary Islands, although situated in African waters, should be in Europe and not Africa.

[@michaelmatisse2808]

Cape verdeans were not only considered Portuguese citizens, they WERE portuguese citizens with portuguese passports. We have evidence with the registry at the border control of Boston Massachussets where the cape verdeans and azoreans imigrated in whale fishing boats between 1800 and 1900. All cape verdeans had portuguese passports and were registered by american authorities as portuguese citizens.

[@prettypurple7175]

punishments, such as public flogging, humiliation and exile, while Perez was one of twelve sentenced to death by being burned alive at the stake in the largest auto-da-fé in history.[11] One of the Jews convicted committed suicide during the trial so was burned in effigy. Francisco Maldonado de Silva, a noted physician, was one of the other Jews who were burned at the same time as Perez (he had been in prison since 1628 and converted prisoners to Judaism). See also References Last edited 1 year ago by Citation bot RELATED ARTICLES History of the Jews in Peru Jews in Peru António Fernandes de Elvas Manuel Rodrigues Lamego

[@laniqueharris7714]

We were already where y’all found us 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@JoaquimMonteiroMartins]

They did my people dirty! 🐽 🤡

[@pedrosousa9780]

how those island originated the most beatifull new race people by mixing African and Portuguese. New melting pot so original nowwhere else in the world existing.

[@Stev0_2125]

There were people living there before they arrived !!! Whitewash

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

I’m Cape Verdean but we can’t deny history. The island was empty. Before the Portuguese arrived there was some North African explorers on the island and historians also suspect Phoenicians were there as well.

[@lucascoval828]

​@@capeverdeanprincess4444 Based.

[@michaelmatisse2808]

and these were not the only ones to be desert islands as Madeira and Azores too were desert. In the case of cape verde it makes sense because the islands have no water and no agricultural land and frequent droughts that can last decades, so even if people tried to settle in cape verde they gave up very quickly until the portuguese settled there and were able to import most of the food they needed.

[@user-py3sc2rd2u]

@@capeverdeanprincess4444 Bo ka pode nega qual historia? Kel k bu prende na scola escrito pelo próprio colonizador?!

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

@@user-py3sc2rd2u Pomod kes tava Konta mentira?? Kze ke motiv?? Flom, Pomod Espaniol ma Portuguese ka konta mentira Kon es fla mo ilha Canarias tinha gente kon es “otcha” ilha.

[@prettypurple7175]

Emanuel Lousada Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit Emanuel Lousada (26 December 1783-14 December 1854)[1] was a London-born Jewish merchant, slave plantation owner and public office holder with interests in Jamaica and Barbados. He was the High Sheriff of Devon from 1842 until 1843, making him the first Jew to hold the title in a county outside of the Sheriff of London,[2] which had been held first by David Salomons in 1835. Lousada was associated with Peak House, Sidmouth. Lousada owned more than 400 African slaves on his sugarcane plantations in the British West Indies at the time of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. He died a wealthy man, leaving £100,000 in his will (worth £10.1 million in 2023).[3][4] Biography Personal life See also References

[@laniqueharris7714]

Is this non fiction or fairytale cause we never Came from Africa

[@dongeano7866]

14000 slaves we’re supposedly there and not one revolted foh ..they been pushing this lie for longest time

[@user-vw6bk4pb4l]

Where did you come from?

[@beataoo]

???

[@beataoo]

(.,).

[@PhantomDisciple]

Explain the melanine complex of the cape verdean people dummy. Is like saying the afro american north and south did not com from africa. Look like you are living in your own fantasy world called Ignorante!

[@flowsfromthegutter]

This is a joke lol 😂😂😂😂 fake news trump voice

[@lynwill9946]

Interesting code words used by the narrator Allocated. NavigatorSettled. Interesting 🤣

[@prettypurple7175]

Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki Manuel Rodrigues Lamego Manuel Rodrigues de Lamego (born circa 1590) was a Portuguese-born merchant and slave trader active in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Biography Family life References