The "Moors" of West Africa and the Beginnings of the Portuguese Slave Trade

Authors

Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Pomona CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

History (Pomona)

Publication Date

1-1-1994

Keywords

Slave trade, Portugal-History, Gomes Eanes de Zurara ca. 1410-1473 or 4

Abstract

Traces the development of the Portuguese slave trade. Europeans’ rationalization of their enslavement of West Africans; Historical chronicles by Portuguese royal archivist Gomes Eanes de Zurara; Zurara's life, works, and insights on the slave trade; Crusade against Islam

Comments

Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/irw,309

Rights Information

© 1994 Duke University Press

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Recommended Citation

Wolf, Kenneth Baxter. "The `Moors' of West Africa and the beginnings of the Portuguese slave trade." Journal of Medieval & Renaissance Studies 24, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 449.