The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle Over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa - Hardcover
by Toby Green
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226844763ISBN-10:226844765UPC:9780226844763Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Africa, Europe, ModernBook Topic:West, Portugal, 17th CenturySize:8.68 x 5.80 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC82RYE4EZ
The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle Over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
Tells the extraordinary story of seventeenth-century West African slave trader Crispina Peres to explore the shifting, sophisticated world in which she lived. In 1665, Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave-trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Portuguese Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed by Senegambian...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226844763ISBN-10:226844765UPC:9780226844763Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Africa, Europe, ModernBook Topic:West, Portugal, 17th CenturySize:8.68 x 5.80 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC82RYE4EZ
Toby Green is professor of precolonial and Lusophone African history and culture at King's College, London. A fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 and, most recently, A Fistful of Shells, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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