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Landowners-merchants:
trade and society in Cape Verde, XV and XVI
Francisco Aimara Carvalho Ribeiro
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
This paper aims to present the role of the archipelago of Cape Verde and the african
region of Senegambia in the assembly and consolidation of the Atlantic slave trade circuit in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The islands stood out as a warehouse for slaves, mainly by the
actionsof the residents of Cape Verde as intermediaries in the Atlantic slave trade for the
Madeira Islands, Canary Islands, for the Iberian Peninsula and to America, especially the
Caribbean and spanish Central America. In this sense, we análise the routes ans numbers of the
tract not only as a flow of goods, but also as a huge population movement involving thousands
of individuals from different cultures with direct consequences on the formation of Cape Verde
society flourishing then.