Somebody is calling our names

Those local chiefs came to this auction house to sell captives to European clients.
Lonnie Bunch: A male in the late 18th century, early 19th century would go anywhere from $600 to $1,500, which is probably about, oh, $9,000 to $15,000 today.
Scott Pelley: This was incredibly lucrative.
Lonnie Bunch: In the years before the Civil War, the amount of money invested in slaves was more than the amount of money invested in railroads, banks, and businesses combined. This was the economic engine of Europe and the United States.
Lonnie Bunch: By the time you got here....
The enslaved marched from the auction down this ramp and on to the ships.
 Mozambique Island rises from the Indian Ocean, south of the equator. It was one of the points in what was called the Triangular Trade -- goods from Europe to Africa, slaves to the New World. And, cotton, gold and tobacco -- back to the old.
In the 1400s, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to trade in slaves and they became the largest, followed by the English, French, Spanish and Dutch. On Mozambique Island the Portuguese built a fortress that they called St. Sebastian for the Christian martyr who was captured, chained and murdered in Rome in the year 288. The irony of that name, was the only thing here the Portuguese failed to grasp.

Dream Keepers Travel Club -Our 2013 Trip to Portugal-10 Days!



The Dream Keepers Travel Club is an unique club in partnership with Napolean & Ada Moton Chapman Institute, to cover a wide variety of exciting places to visit, and appeals to adults ranging in ages 18 and above.  Travelers will meet other professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, and scholars who travel with us in our effort to uncover new information and old traditions. Our tour exposes travelers to the learning of different cultural ideas, the conversion of different currency, shopping, and more. The tours will empower members through world knowledge, creating a positive impact and difference as we travel to see the world!  Our interactive itinerary with captivating sites introduces The Dream Keepers Travel Club members to a variety of countries focusing on global awareness, universal pride and embracing our world’s rich multicultural societies and history. The Dream Keepers Travel Club is part of a greater initiative though our partnership with, The Napolean & Ada Moton Chapman Institute, which seeks to provide opportunities for international travel and broadening the minds of individuals looking for adventure, fun, education, and enlightenment. Please join The Dream Keepers Travel Club as we take an amazing journey to France.

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Betti A. Moore, Program Director,

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Dream Keepers Club, Tour Leader

Our trip in this year!

Ten days in Portugal was like visiting Paris, France and San Palo, Brazil!  My trip was well worth every dollar or euro I spent:  Portugal: Porto might be Portugal’s second-largest city today, a modern metropolis home to 240,000 people, but the heart of it still lies in the medieval old city, the Ribeira. The Ribeira district begins along the banks of the River Douro and spreads up into the hills behind. From the top of the Dom Luis Bridge you get a bird’s-eye view down onto its maze of streets and colorful buildings.  Porto is home to over 40 different port producers – well almost, they’re actually based in the neighboring Vila Nova de Gaia, across the River Douro.

The hillside here is covered with red-roofed buildings topped with famous names like Graham’s, Taylor’s, Cockburn’s and Croft. But the port isn’t actually made here. Port production starts about 50 miles upstream in the Duoro Valley, where the climate is perfect for growing the grapes used to make port. Like Champagne, port can only be produced in a specified area. Once the grapes have been picked, pressed and fermented, the port is transported to Porto for storage and shipping around the world. Traditionally it was sent downriver in the rabelo wooden port barges you can still see on the Duoro, but it travels less romantically by road now. Straddling the River Duoro, the arching ironwork of the Dom Luís I bridge dominates Porto’s waterfront. It’s a imposing sight, whether you’re looking at it or looking out from the top of its 45-metre-high arch.

Porto’s known as the ‘city of bridges’ and this is one of six linking it to the Vila Nova de Gaia on the opposite bank, where many port lodges are based.

The Dom Luís Bridge was built by Téophile Seyrig, the business partner of Gustav Eiffel who had already worked with him on the similar-looking Maria Pia Bridge in Porto, Eiffel’s last project before his Tower. It stretches over 170 metres between the river banks and was the longest arch bridge in the world when it opened in 1886. Today the lower level is used by cars and the upper one by the metro, as well as pedestrians soaking up the views across Porto and all of the other areas we visit.