The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Toby Green

The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Toby Green

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The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Toby Green
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The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Toby Green

The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Toby Green

$39.03
$39.03
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780226844763.0
FormatHardcover

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In 1665, Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave-trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Portuguese Inquisition. Tells the extraordinary story of seventeenth-century West African slave trader Crispina Peres to explore the shifting, sophisticated world in which she lived. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed by Senegambian healers, the djabakós. But who was Peres?

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