[Sca-librarians] Portuguese History question

[Cash, John Joseph]

Dear Maura,

It will probably be tough to fill 10 pages on this one guy. Antam 
Goncalvez is known simply as the first recorded European sea captain to 
have purchased slaves in Africa and sold them to Europeans. The main 
on-line references cite Elizabeth Donnan's "Documents Illustrative of 
the History of the Slave Trade to America" (published in 1930, in 4 
volumes, -- the first document is in volume 1, from 1441, and concerns 
Captain Goncalvez). You might begin there, to see if there is further 
information on him in the document. There is further information in 
Norman Davies' "Europe, A History" (1996), where a box on pages 452-453 
talks about Goncalvez; and also in Gomes Eanes de Zurara's "The 
Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea" (published by the 
Hakluyt Society, 1896-99; it's in volume 2 and is accessible on line). 
You might also check out an associate of his, the explorer Joao 
Fernandez.

- Johannes

> I'm throwing this out to the collective brain......
>
> I have a student who has been given an assignment to wirte 10 pages
> on Antam Goncalvez
> all I have found is a reference to him being a navigator who? in 1441
> captured and transported slaves to Lisbon.
> Please point me in the direction of enough info for a 10 page paper.
> PS maybe an assignment that the professor has not researched but has
> randomly picked a footnote and made tha assignmnet.
>
> thanks
> Maura MacLeod
>