黄金、香料和奴隶是资本原始积累时期西方殖民者在海外掠夺的三大主要“商品”,其中黑奴贸易是西方殖民扩张史上最黑暗、最血腥的一页。最早从事黑奴贩运的西方殖民者是葡萄牙人。在葡萄牙殖民者的眼中,黑奴不仅指非洲人,而且也指其他地区的一些民族,因为葡萄牙人往往将比他们 Gold, spices and slaves are the three major “commodities” that Western colonists plundered overseas during the primitive accumulation of capital. Among them, the slave trade was the darkest and most bloody page in the history of Western colonial expansion. The earliest Western colonial trafficker was the Portuguese. In the eyes of the Portuguese colonists, slaves refer not only to Africans but also to some ethnic groups in other regions as the Portuguese tend to outnumber them