Title: Treatise on Slavery
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.
Subjects: Blacks, Missions, Catholic Church, Slavery and the church, Jesuits, Jesuits, missions, Slaves, Latin america, religion, Black people, Early works to 1800, Religious life