Many Black Women of This Fortress: Graa, Mnica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire Konadu Kwasi
Many Black Women of This Fortress: Graa, Mnica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire Konadu Kwasi This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the…
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Many Black Women of This Fortress: Graa, Mnica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire Konadu Kwasi
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. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced.While some women liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual violence, as if they were already self-governing. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies.
Many Black Women of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of Graa, Mnica and Adwoa, charting