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Wikipedia states that there there were thousands of Black Africans in Portugal in the 15th century and the population of Medieval Lisbon then was 10% Black. What happened to them thereafter, and do their descendants still live in Portugal today?

by /u/bluerobot27 in /r/AskHistorians

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