Lourenco da Silva Mendonca and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century, Hardback

This groundbreaking study provides a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade, highlighting the agency of Africans in the quest for abolition. The book reveals how the legal debate on abolition was begun by Africans, not Europeans. An essential new work for scholars and students interested in the abolition movement.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Jose (University of Bristol) Lingna Nafafe
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 377
• Collection: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
• Publication date: 2022
• Dimensions: 159 x 235 x 37
• Cover type: Hardback