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BORN IN BLACKNESS: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Author: Howard W French
Publisher: Liveright
Price: $35
Pages: 499
In 1444, the citizens of Lagos in southern Portugal witnessed a novel spectacle. As they crowded the beach, some 235 newly arrived Black captives were driven ashore. Overseers dragged families apart as despairing mothers clutched their children and threw themselves on the ground, absorbing the blows raining on their backs. Presiding from horseback over Europe’s first sizeable market of sub-Saharan slaves was Portugal’s Prince Henry, known to history as “the Navigator,” and watching nearby was his official
