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Abstract

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Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century

“…208 Before standing in the witness box in the Vatican, Moirans had already completed a thesis on the defence of Africans from enslavement. 209 The inhumane treatment of enslaved people was widely known in Brazil, Portugal, Africa and Spain by the seventeenth century, but the merchants and the governing authorities in the Iberian Peninsula who had long dominated the trade had covered up its abuses. In fact, and as referenced, they promoted slavery throughout Europe as benign, and in the Atlantic as a triumph of Christian missionary activity.…”