num_pages: 340
description: 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 the next 350 years. "São Tomé" tells the story of young Marcel Saulo abducted with other children from their synagogue in Lisbon and shipped 4,000 miles to the West-African island.
language: English
title: São Tome: Journey to the Abyss--Portugal's Stolen Children
titlecomplete: São Tome: Journey to the Abyss--Portugal's Stolen Children
genres: Historical, Africa, Portugal, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Burns-Cole Pub