SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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He wanted to start an African Exploration team to gain wealth for his country.
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He was educated by missionaries, attempted to trade with Europeans without trading slaves.
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He didn’t want to trade with Europeans at all, he tried to isolate his kingdom from the outside.
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He was actually a European who had been adopted by a village when he offered them help.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alfonso I [King] (?-1543) Born Nzinga Mbemba, King Alfonso I was the leader of the Kongolese people in the early part of the 16th Century.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1526, the king of the Kongo, Nzinga Mbemba (who by this time had adopted the Christian name of Afonso I) began writing a series of twenty-four letters to the Portuguese King Joao III appealing for an end to the slave trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -Afonso I, also called Afonso Henriques, byname Afonso the Conqueror, Portuguese Afonso o Conquistador, (born 1109/11, Guimarães, Port.-died Dec. 6, 1185, Coimbra), the first king of Portugal (1139–85), who conquered Santarém and Lisbon from the Muslims (1147) and secured Portuguese independence from Leon (1139).
Detailed explanation-4: -King Afonso welcomed the practice of health and medicine from the other King. He requested to send him 2 physicians, 2 apothecaries and 1 surgeon so they can come with their skills and medicines so they can set up store in his kingdom because they are in extreme need of all and each of them.