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The Heretic of Cacheu - Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Hardcover)
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The Heretic of Cacheu - Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Hardcover)
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In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African
slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her
enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed
by Senegambian healers: the djabakós. But who was Peres? And why was
the Portuguese Inquisition so concerned with policing the faith of a
West African woman in today’s Guinea-Bissau?
In The Heretic of Cacheu Toby Green takes us to the heart of this
conundrum, but also into the atmosphere of a very distant time and
place. We learn how people in seventeenth-century Cacheu built their
houses, what they wore, how they worshipped – and also the work they
did, how they had fun, and how they healed themselves from illness.
Through this story, the haunting realities of the growing slave trade
and the rise of European empires emerge in shocking detail. By the
1650s, the relationship between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas
was already an old one, with slaving entrepots, colonies, and military
bases interweaving over many generations. But Cacheu also challenged
the dynamic. It was globally connected to places ranging from China and
India to Brazil and Colombia, and women like Crispina Peres ran the
town and challenged the patriarchy of empire.
For the first time, through the surviving documents recording Peres’s
case, we can see what this world was really like. Cacheu is an
extraordinary act of historical recovery. It is the story of a
seventeenth-century West African woman, but also of the shifting,
sophisticated world in which she lived – its beliefs, values and people.
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