Contributions

  • Thornton, John Kelly, 1949- - Contributor

Publication

2007 - Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

92,500 words, Guess

Page Count

370 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads7028209
  • WikidataQ121039112

Classifications

  • DDC306.3/620899674107
  • LCCE29.N3 H49 2007

Description

331 readable pages of well organized, very well researched African History describing the complicated relationships amongst Angolan Kings, Queens and Lords; Congolese Christian Kings; Catholic Jesuits and Capuchins; and Portuguese slave traders for the period named in the Title. Co-winner of the 2008 Melville Herskovits Award for the Best Book Published in African Studies. Includes a comprehensive index and an appendix on Names of Africans Appearing in Early Colonial Records.

Subjects

Topics

KongoBlacksJesuitSlaveryCreolesHistoryKikongo

Places

CongoAngolaAmericaNetherlandsGreat BritainDemocratic Republic of Congo

People

Nzinga

Times

1585-166017th century

Other Editions

  • Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the making of the Anglo-Dutch Americas, 1585-1660Cambridge University Press2007-01-01

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