Between 1440 and 1640, from 300,000 to 350,000 African slaves were forcefully moved from sub-Saharan Africa to the Iberic Peninsula. Mostly female and young, this population was led to Portugal, to live among different cultural practices-in a society where the smallest religious, ethnic, or cultural difference was a cause of exclusion. How did men and women of foreign origins and cultures share a life, and have children, with the Portuguese, without sharing the society’s values? Through exclusion, integration, and assimilation, the African presence in Portugal, from the sixteenth century onwards, created a plural nation and complex identities.

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• Mendes, A. d., (2025), "Africaines esclaves au Portugal: dynamiques d'exclusion, d'intégration et d'assimilation à l'époque moderne (XVe-XVIe siècles)", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Mendes, António de Almeida. "Africaines esclaves au Portugal: dynamiques d'exclusion, d'intégration et d'assimilation à l'époque moderne (XVe-XVIe siècles)." Renaissance and Reformation 31 (2): 2020. 45-65. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v31i2.9183. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.