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In 1485, the Portuguese Crown and Catholic Church began to kidnap Jewish children, forcibly convert the young conscripts, and ship them to São Tomé Island to work the sugar plantations. This is a little-known chapter of the Diaspora. The collision of slavery, sugar agriculture, and discovery of The Americas transformed this island colony into the nidus of the wholesale black slave trade that infected Africa and Western commerce for...
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Stellar Pre-Publication Reviews for Paul Cohn's São Tomé:
São Tomé... a powerful story... I admired the strength and confidence in the writing. The setting and characters are richly drawn, and I especially enjoyed the vivid details that make the unfolding events resonate sharply with the reader... riveting." --Michael Peitsch, Sr. Vice President/Publisher, Little, Brown & Co.
"A potent mix of characters and action, Paul Cohn's São Tomé...
About the Author
Paul Cohn became intrigued with the story of São Tomé Island after viewing Luc Cuyveres' PBS series Into the Rising Sun which chronicled the 15th and 16th Century Portuguese voyages of exploration. His research revealed the compelling history of this equatorial, West-African island colony: The beginnings—and then the centerpiece—for wholesale African slave trafficking, the kidnapping of Jewish children from the Portuguese mainland to work the Tomé sugar...
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- PublisherBurns-Cole Pub
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0964587602
- ISBN 13 9780964587601
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages340
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