TY - BOOK ID - 101638188 TI - Lourenço da Silva Mendoça and the Black Atlantic abolitionist movement in the 17th century PY - 2022 SN - 1108976530 1108974198 1108838235 1108968732 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Slavery KW - Transatlantic slave trade KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Mendoça, Lourenço da Silva, KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Atlantic slave trade KW - Trans-Atlantic slave trade KW - Slave trade KW - African diaspora KW - Mendouça, Lourenço da Silva de, KW - De Mendouça, Lourenço da Silva, KW - Antislavery movements. KW - Law and legislation. KW - Slavery (International law) KW - Human rights KW - Abolitionism KW - Anti-slavery movements KW - Human rights movements KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101638188 AB - This groundbreaking study tells the story of the highly organised, international legal court case for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the seventeenth century. The case, presented before the Vatican, called for the freedom of all enslaved people and other oppressed groups. This included New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity) and Indigenous Americans in the Atlantic World, and Black Christians from confraternities in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. Abolition debate is generally believed to have been dominated by white Europeans in the eighteenth century. By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. In the first book of its kind, Lingna Nafafé underscores the exceptionally complex nature of the African liberation struggle, and demystifies the common knowledge and accepted wisdom surrounding African slavery. ER -