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No Brazil without Angola

Toby Green: Black Abolitionism, 18 May 2023

Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century 
by José Lingna Nafafé.
Cambridge, 468 pp., £47.99, August 2022, 978 1 108 97419 6
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... from the African kingdom of Ndongo arrived in Rome. Lourenço da Silva de Mendonça was there, as José LingnaNafafé explains in his new book, to demand the legal abolition of Atlantic slavery. He was bringing ‘an ethical and criminal kufunda [case] before the Vatican court, which accused the nations ...

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