Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery

2025/10/02 by José Juan Pérez Meléndez · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Caribbean history, culture, and politics #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/0144039x.2025.2577786

openalex publication_date 2025/10/02 · openalex created_date 2025/12/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Captive Cosmopolitans skilfully reconstructs the worlds of African and Afro-Brazilian mariners as the slave trade between the Mina coast and Bahia ramped up in the late eighteenth and early ninetee...

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