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Why plantation slavery may been invented on this small African island
Archaeologists believe that plantation slavery may have taken root on a 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé. The two volcanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were discovered off the coast of West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea by Portuguese explorers Pêro Escobar and João de Santarém in the…
