Portuguese slavery was framed as missionary work that competitors could not mimic

Evidence

Zurara distinguished the Portuguese by framing their African slave-trading ventures as missionary expeditions. Prince Henry’s competitors could not play that mind game as effectively as he did, in all likelihood because they still traded so many Eastern Europeans. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 52

Categorization

• XREF: The rhetorical justification (missionary framing) parallels how modern moral defense of self-interested policy works; connects to reader’s broader project of placing any argument into Kendi’s scheme.