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Cape Verde's Salt and Slaves: The Forgotten Atlantic Hub
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how the tiny Cape Verde islands became an unexpected lynchpin of Portugal's Atlantic empire. They trace the arrival of António de Noli and Diogo Gomes in the 1460s, the founding of Ribeira Grande on Santiago, and the island's rapid transformation into a slave-trading depot and a crossroads for caravels bound for the Americas and Africa. The conversation digs into the brutal mechanics of the salt trade — how Cape Verde's salt pans fed the cod fisheries of Newfoundland and the sugar mills of the Caribbean — and the island's role as a…
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