Portuguese settle Madeira and the Azores
1420–1439 · Event
Portuguese colonists settle uninhabited Madeira and then the Azores, planting sugar with enslaved labour: the template for Atlantic plantations.
On these timelines: Age of Exploration, Master, Slavery & Abolition
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