As a professor of African and Atlantic history, I challenge this notion in a book titled Lourenço ... But the Christian states of Europe failed to honour it. It would take another 200 years before ...
nearly 300,000 enslaved persons were transported in slave ships from African ports to mainland North America and more than 3.4 million disembarked in the British and French West Indies.
This form of slavery, known as racial slavery, began in large-scale during the 15th century and was formally condemned by the Popes as early as 1435, fifty-seven years before Columbus discovered ...