Many Black Women of This Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire

by Kwasi Konadu

This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178738697X
• ISBN13: 9781787386976
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"