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Manuel Rodrigues de Lamego (born circa 1590) was a Portuguese-born merchant and slave trader active in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Rodrigues de Lamego was a Marrano . [ 1 ] He was contracted by the Spanish Empire with an official asiento to provide their colonies in the Spanish Americas with African slaves from 1 April 1623 to 25 ...
Emanuel Driggus (b. c. 1620s-d. 1673) and his wife Frances were enslaved Atlantic Creoles in the mid-seventeenth century in the Colony of Virginia.The name Driggus is likely a corruption of the Portuguese name Rodrigues as he may have been born in the Kingdom of Ndongo [1] [2] (as well as others who were among the First Africans in Virginia, such as John Graweere and Angela).
African slaves (ancestors of the present population) were brought to Rodrigues to develop stock-breeding and farming. In 1735 a permanent French settlement was established, subordinated to Île Bourbon .
African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled ...
African slaves working in 17th-century Virginia, by an unknown artist, 1670. The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th through to the 19th centuries. According to Patrick Manning, the Atlantic slave trade was significant in transforming Africans from a minority of the global ...
The first black Africans arrived on the Island of Cubagua around 1526-1527 to be used by Spaniards as slaves in pearl fishing. Slaves were later imported to the rest of Venezuelan territory for plantations and domestic service.
The Spaniards were the first Europeans to use African slaves in the New World on islands such as Cuba and Hispaniola, due to a shortage of labor caused by the spread of diseases, and so the Spanish colonists gradually became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. The first African slaves arrived in Hispaniola in 1501; [353] by 1517, the natives ...
António Fernandes de Elvas was married to Elena Rodrigues Solís, she, like her husband was of Marrano background. [2] This made Fernandes de Elvas the son-in-law of Jorge Rodrigues de Solís and the brother-in-law of Jerónimo Rodrigues de Solís; indeed Jerónimo worked under his brother-in-law in the slave trade in Cape Verde and Angola. [4]