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- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Municipal Council of Luanda and the Politics of the Portuguese Governors in Angola
- 2 Ndongo’s Political and Cultural Environment: Alliance, Internal Struggle, Puppeteering and Decline
- 3 The Journey of Mendonça: The Princes of Pungo-Andongo in Brazil
- 4 Mendonça’s Journey to Portugal and Spain, and the Network of the Hebrew Nation and Indigenous Americans
- 5 Mendonça’s Discourse in the Vatican: Liberation as a Wider Atlantic Question
- 6 Mendonça’s Quest for Abolition and the Tussle between the Portuguese Overseas Council and the House of Ndongo
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2022
- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Municipal Council of Luanda and the Politics of the Portuguese Governors in Angola
- 2 Ndongo’s Political and Cultural Environment: Alliance, Internal Struggle, Puppeteering and Decline
- 3 The Journey of Mendonça: The Princes of Pungo-Andongo in Brazil
- 4 Mendonça’s Journey to Portugal and Spain, and the Network of the Hebrew Nation and Indigenous Americans
- 5 Mendonça’s Discourse in the Vatican: Liberation as a Wider Atlantic Question
- 6 Mendonça’s Quest for Abolition and the Tussle between the Portuguese Overseas Council and the House of Ndongo
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Considerable scholarship has traced the flows of captives from West Central Africa, especially the Kongo and Angola areas, and the Bights of Benin, Biafra and the Upper Guinea Coast. However, this book is the first work to consider the movement for the abolition of slavery in the seventeenth century as a unified endeavour in both the Old and New Worlds. This book has engaged with African abolition and the wider Atlantic network, including not only enslaved Africans but also New Christians and Indigenous Americans in the mid-seventeenth century. Anglophone and Lusophone scholars have paid little attention to the Black Atlantic abolitionist movement beyond the Americas, a topic that has been considered in depth here. Let me summarise my main findings.
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- Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century , pp. 414 - 430Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022