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The Portuguese began planting

sugar cane

on the island of S’o Tome

at virtually the same time

they opened their trade with

the Congo-Angola region,

at around 1480.

Labor demands increased sharply.

S’o Tome planters

by-passed traditional Portuguese

commercial networks and ventured

onto the African mainland

to procure their own slaves.

Patrick J. Carroll, 1991

Bruckhael, 1500

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