Respuesta :

The Slave Trade, European colonization of the new world needed a labor force to exploit the land and was a ready market for the cheapest labor of all, slaves.

Answer:

The islands offered a healthier and more strategically secure base for trade along the African coast than any location on the mainland. From 1455-1975 it served Portuguese strategic and commercial interests. Such famous navigators as Da Gama, Dias, and Columbus passed through Cape Verde on their way to someplace else.

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