Jamestown is also recognized as one of the first slave ports of the American colonies.
Ziguinchor was in fact a slave port during much of the Portuguese occupation.
Sara was subsequently baptized at a church in the town of Badagry, a former slave port.
Nantes was one of the main slave ports in Europe in the 18th century.
This port had once been one of the most busy slave ports on the entire African coast.
The arrangement, common throughout the Atlantic's slave ports, allowed Denmark to make a life for himself.
São Tomé was discovered in the 1470s by Portuguese explorers and subsequently became a slave port.
The slave port of Gorée in Senegambia had already been seized in 1627.
Nantes remained the principal slave port until the 1780s.
It was operated by African American slaves - Georgetown was in fact a slave port.