CONTESTED
LEGACIES
PORTUGAL
The Early Atlantic Slave Trade in Portugal: A Digital Archive of Contested Legacies
++SITES
LAGOS
LISBON
- Terreiro do Paço
- Casa dos Escravos
- Rua Nova dos Mercadores
- Campo das Cebolas
- Chafariz d’El-Rei
- Church of São Domingos
- Court of the Inquisition
- Rua do Poço dos Negros
- Monument to the Discoveries
++OBJECTIVES
- This digital archive aims to excavate and document the legacy of the early Atlantic slave trade in Portugal. We deal with sites in which the controversial memory of slavery ...
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++CONTRIBUTORS
1. Arlindo Manuel Caldeira
2. Pedro Cardim
3. Paula Cardoso
4. Gabriela Có
5. Beatriz Gomez Dias
6. Djuzé (Batoto Yetu)
7. Naky Gaglo
8. Giuseppe Marcocci
9. María Elena Morán Hernández
10. Ricardo Roque
11. Sofia Yala
PARTNERS
Lagos: The Origins
Lagos: a town which represents both the origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the origins of this project. The town, today one of the country’s touristic centres, was once better known as Portugal’s main port city, where the first large-scale sale of enslaved individuals to be recorded in the sources took place in 1444. Here, we find three significant sites of memory: a statue, a museum, and a mass grave still filled with the bodies of enslaved individuals just 550m away. If the museum represents Portugal's first monument acknowledging its history with the slave trade, the mass grave reminds us that this acknowledgement is only cursory.