Western Civilization I / Unit 16 WC1 1503 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Henry the Navigator and the African Coast
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The idea
Prince Henry, thirteen ninety-four to fourteen sixty, sent captains down Africa's coast and settled Madeira, the Azores and Cape Verde, seeking gold and then enslaved Africans, the first Atlantic cargoes in the fourteen forties by the anchor's date.
In practice
The school at Sagres, a tradition historians doubt, attributed.
Where people slip
The slave trade begins here, a century before the Caribbean.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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