1642-1807: Salvador da Bahia organized more slaving voyages than any other Atlantic port for the majority of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1642-1807: Salvador da Bahia organized more slaving voyages than any other Atlantic port for the majority of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The port maintained a uniquely robust commercial link with the Bight of Benin, facilitated by a strong African demand for Brazilian tobacco coated in molasses. This specific trade route took advantage of the prevailing Atlantic current systems to allow for a direct and efficient exchange of people and goods. Many of the captives brought into Bahia after the discovery of gold in 1695 were later sold into the burgeoning mining regions located deep in the Brazilian interior.