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
Lisbon: The Expansion
Today the capital city of Portugal and its main touristic centre, Lisbon was once the head of a global empire. It became the country’s main centre of import of enslaved people of African origin from the late fifteenth century. Slavery and colonialism shaped the history of Lisbon for centuries, yet their ubiquitous legacies continue to be overwhelmed in the public discourse by the grand narrative of the so-called “discoveries”. Those who visit the grandiose Monument of the Discoveries erected by the Salazarist regime in the outskirts of the city are usually unaware of its apologetic purpose. Likewise the afterlife of slavery - monuments to slavery in the city’s most famous areas, economic and social policies which continue to discriminate against Afro-descendants - remains a tangible shaping force in the city.