The Regimento da Mina

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20077587
AutoresDavid Birmingham (University of Kent, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Páginas25-32
Data de publicação1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoPortugal and Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-27490-1_3
OpenAlexW2257278475
ISBN9781349274901
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas2

Attempts by Portugal to control the supply of gold mined on the West African Gold Coast were regulated by detailed sets of royal instructions. One of these was the Regimento of 1529 which outlined the methods used to manipulate the price paid for gold. The fortress of Mina, built in 1481 and stoutly defended until the Dutch captured it in 1637, was the key trading factory in which gold was bought in exchange for textiles, ornamental jewellery and brassware. The Portuguese also sold slave labourers to the Akan gold merchants and mine owners. It is thought possible that Chnstopher Columbus may have visited Mina while in Portuguese service and before he set out to explore the gold-mining opportunities of the Caribbean on behalf of Castile. This article first appeared in the Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana (Vol. 11, 1971)

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