World History EncyclopediaToby Green’s "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" is a richly detailed and deeply human book centered on the life of Crispina Peres, a powerful African woman trader prosecuted by the Portuguese Inquisition in the 1660s. #History #17thCentury #AtlanticOcean #Cacheu #Colonialism #WestAfrica #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-551-en/
The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
In The Heretic of Cacheu, Toby Green uses one extraordinary life to illuminate a broader historical landscape shaped by commerce, belief, gender, and cultural negotiation. Cacheu, located in present-day...
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