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2 days agoThe Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
Crispina Peres, a seventeenth-century African woman trader in Cacheu, navigated multiple spiritual and commercial worlds while facing Portuguese Inquisition prosecution, revealing complex early modern West African societies shaped by commerce, belief, and cultural negotiation.