The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port by Toby Green
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port
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Toby Green
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The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port

Toby Green

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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 Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed by Senegambian healers: the djabakós...

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