But the Portuguese practically invented the slave trade, and they had a real fascist, followed by real communists, as rulers in the 20th Century.
And she just doesn’t have the right voice to sing the fados, either.
In the 1900s, the Portuguese colony of Angola had an island off the coast loaded with cacao plantations the used slaves, and even brought in new slaves (the island-born slaves weren't keeping up with the demand).
The holier-than-thou Quaker Cadburys got reamed in the press for trading with Angola once slavery there was confirmed.
Not that it was completely their fault. The Cadburys had looked into the practice, but trusted government - the BFO - on promises that slavery didn't exist there, and if it did, the BFO said that they'd take *care* of the problem by dealing with Lisbon.
“the Portuguese practically invented the slave trade, and they had a real fascist, followed by real communists, as rulers in the 20th Century.”
The Portuguese were among the first Europeans to buy and trade slaves from Asia, Africa and later from what is now known as Central America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Portugal
Some Chinese slaves in Spain ended up there after being brought to Lisbon in Portugal and sold when they were boys. Tristán de la China was a Chinese who was taken as a slave by the Portuguese,[7] while he was still a boy and in the 1520s was obtained by Cristobál de Haro in Lisbon, and taken to live in Seville and Valladolid.[8]
He was paid for his service as a translator on the 1525 Loaísa expedition,[9] during which he was still an adolescent.[10] The survivors, including Tristan, were shipwrecked for a decade until 1537 when they were brought back by a Portuguese ship to Lisbon.[11]
There are records of Chinese slaves in Lisbon in 1540.[12] A Chinese scholar, apparently enslaved by Portuguese raiders somewhere on the southern China coast, was brought to Portugal around 1549. Purchased by João de Barros, he worked with the Portuguese historian on translating Chinese texts into Portuguese.[13]
Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders ... The Portuguese were the first to engage in the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century. .