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Elmina Castle, West Africa, 1668.

Former slave market built in 1444, image by Hernâni Viegas, Lagos, Portugal, 2013.

The ransoming of Christian slaves held by Turkish, drawing by Giovanni Maria Morandi, ca. 1600s, courtesy of Musée du Louvre.

Las Siete Partidas (the Seven-Part Code), 1550 publication cover, orginally compiled 1265.

Chafariz d’el Rey in the Alfama District (View of a Square with the Kings Fountain in Lisbon), ca. 1570-80, courtesy of the Museu Berardo.

Europeans abducted by Ottomans into slavery, woodcut by Niklas Stör, ca. 1530.

Replica of the caravel Boa Esperança, image by Hernâni Viegas, Lagos, Portugal, 2013.

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Map of Santiago, Cape Verde, 1589, created by Giovanni Battista Boazio.

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Map of West African coast showing "A mina" (the mine), which later became Elmina in present day Ghana, ca. sixteenth century.

Ferdinand II pointing across Atlantic to where Columbus is landing with three ships amid large group of Indians, ca. 1500, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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