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100 1 a| Green, Toby,d| 1974-e| author.4| aut1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjvkBqKbQgD4BjqddjvCgq=| ^A1217925;

245 14 a| The heretic of Cacheu :b| Crispina Peres and the struggle over life in seventeenth-century West Africa /c| Toby Green.;

264 1 a| Chicago :b| The University of Chicago Press,c| 2025;

300 a| xxvii, 333 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-[295]) and indexes.;

505 0 a| Introduction -- Crispina and Jorge -- Women and power in Cacheu -- Cacheu: The setting -- Cacheu in regional and global context -- Religion, politics and power -- Slavery and human trafficking -- Work -- Entertainment and gossip -- Time and space -- Living, healing and dying in Cacheu -- Conclusion.;

520 a| "Tells the extraordinary story of seventeenth-century West African slave trader Crispina Peres to explore the shifting, sophisticated world in which she lived. In 1665, Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave-trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Portuguese 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 Inquisition so concerned with policing the faith of a West African woman in today's Guinea-Bissau? In The Heretic of Cacheu, award-winning historian Toby Green takes us to the heart of this conundrum, immersing us in the atmosphere of an otherwise distant setting. We learn how people in seventeenth-century Cacheu built their houses; styled their clothes; healed themselves from illness; and worshipped, worked, and played. Green renders the haunting realities of the growing slave trade and the rise of European empires in shocking detail. By the 1650s, the relationships between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas were already old and tangled, with slaving ports, colonies, and military bases having intermingled over many generations. But Cacheu also profoundly troubled this dynamic. It was globally connected to places ranging from China and India to Brazil and Colombia, and women such as Crispina Peres ran the town and challenged the patriarchy of empire." --c| Provided by publisher.;

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The heretic of Cacheu : Crispina Peres and the struggle over life in seventeenth-century West Africa / Toby Green.

Author/creator	Green, Toby, 1974- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	xxvii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects	Peres, Crispina--Trials, litigation, etc. Inquisition--Portugal. --Colonies. --History. --Sources. Guinea-Bissau--History. Guinea-Bissau--Social conditions. --Sources.

Contents	Introduction -- Crispina and Jorge -- Women and power in Cacheu -- Cacheu: The setting -- Cacheu in regional and global context -- Religion, politics and power -- Slavery and human trafficking -- Work -- Entertainment and gossip -- Time and space -- Living, healing and dying in Cacheu -- Conclusion.
Abstract	"Tells the extraordinary story of seventeenth-century West African slave trader Crispina Peres to explore the shifting, sophisticated world in which she lived. In 1665, Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave-trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Portuguese 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 Inquisition so concerned with policing the faith of a West African woman in today's Guinea-Bissau? In The Heretic of Cacheu, award-winning historian Toby Green takes us to the heart of this conundrum, immersing us in the atmosphere of an otherwise distant setting. We learn how people in seventeenth-century Cacheu built their houses; styled their clothes; healed themselves from illness; and worshipped, worked, and played. Green renders the haunting realities of the growing slave trade and the rise of European empires in shocking detail. By the 1650s, the relationships between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas were already old and tangled, with slaving ports, colonies, and military bases having intermingled over many generations. But Cacheu also profoundly troubled this dynamic. It was globally connected to places ranging from China and India to Brazil and Colombia, and women such as Crispina Peres ran the town and challenged the patriarchy of empire." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-[295]) and indexes.
ISBN	9780226844763
ISBN	0226844765 (hardcover)
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