... African coasts. These fortifications usually were built on the site of already existing towns, and thus local communities played a key role in providing these fledging municipalities with supplies. From Cape Coast in modern Ghana to Luanda in Angola, founded in 1579 by the Portuguese, Atlantic port towns nominally under European control helped to foster a cosmopolitan society where European and African bloodlines ... ...

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