José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £50 – 978 1 108 83823 8; pb £25.99 – 978 1 009 57372 6). 2022, 468 pp.

Key Points

• To investigate the roles of José Lingna Nafafé and Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the seventeenth-century abolitionist movement within the Black Atlantic.
• Historical analysis of primary texts
• Contextual exploration of the Black Atlantic
• Interdisciplinary approach to abolitionist literature
• Identified key contributions of Nafafé and Mendonça to abolitionist thought
• Highlighted the significance of the Black Atlantic in the abolitionist movement
• Revealed connections between local and transatlantic abolitionist efforts

Abstract