Today, the Portuguese port city of Lagos on the Algarve is primarily a magnet for tourists. Visitors wandering around the well-preserved old town will eventually happen upon the historic slave market (Mercado de Escravos): Towards the end of the Middle Ages Lagos was primarily a trading centre for slaves from Africa. This is evidenced, not least, by a grim discovery that was made during the course of the construction of a new multi-story parking lot: Numerous human skeletons that give the impression of a human garbage tip. Anthropologist Dr. Maria Teresa Ferreira from the University of Coimbra in Portugal suspects that the remains here are those of slaves. But who were these people? What sorry fate did they suffer? What new information about the history of slavery can we glean from the research into these skeletons?
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