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  • Ca da Mosto Alvise

    1455–1462
    Slave trader Transports and maritime activities
    Origin
    Venezia
    Place of activity
    Lagos (Portogallo)

    A Venetian navigator in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator, in 1455 he reached the mouth of the Senegal, where he exchanged horses for enslaved people, and continued as far as the Gambia. On the expedition of 1456 he sailed with the Genoese Antoniotto Usodimare towards the Casamance, the Bijagós Islands and Cape Verde; he then remained seven years in Lagos, before returning to Venice in 1462.