Treatise on Slavery
Subtitle: Selections from De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute
Contributors: Nicole Von Germeten (Editor, Translator)
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc; Hackett Pub. Co.
Published: March 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780872209305
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Slavery & emancipation; South America; The Americas; USA; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Latin America - South America; Modern - 17th Century; History; Blacks; Early works to 1800; Latin America; Missions; Religious life; Slaves; History: American
Description: In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627) - the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas - Jesuit priest Alonso de Sandoval described dozens of African ethnicities, their languages, and their beliefs, and provided an exposé of the abuse of slaves in the Americas.