For centuries, volumes about the history of the transatlantic slave trade focused on European abolitionism. But this has changed in recent decades, with scholarship concentrating on American and Caribbean emancipation movements and key figures. In LourenÇo da Silva MendonÇa and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century, José Lingna Nafafé examines the trajectory of an abolitionist prince who spearheaded the legal battle and debates about emancipating Jewish people, indigenous Americans and black Christians in the 17th century.
Nafafé’s outstanding volume underlines a long history of brutality that echoes Caroline Elkins’ Elkins’ sharp analysis explores how violence became a
