Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

2025/07/03 by Thiago Krause · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Cuban History and Society #Race, History, and American Society

paper · doi:10.1080/0144039x.2025.2532925

openalex publication_date 2025/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15

Abstract

Chloe L. Ireton’s impressive debut monograph offers a meticulous archival reconstruction of Black experiences of slavery and freedom in the early Spanish Atlantic, spanning approximately 1520 to 16...

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• It read to me as way more individual than the argument put forward by the Lima pardos ou Lourenço de Mendonça… doi.org/10.1080/0144... [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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