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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 171-174 · open book
Beginning in 1595 the Spanish government gave Portuguese merchants the asiento, the contract to supply its New World colonies with slaves. With the growth of slave trading from the well-fortified Portuguese bases in Angola in the seventeenth century, the linkage between increasingly militaristic kingdoms in Africa and the plantation complex of the Americas was strengthened-at a tremendous cost in violence throughout a large part of west and central Africa.