Tag: Slavery
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, often described as a prose-poem for its surprising brevity and deep meaning, is the most moving work of political discourse I’ve ever read. In that short speech, Lincoln captured the horrific nature of war and the terrible burdens of an American history built literally on the backs of slaves.
The transatlantic slave trade’s return to Western Christendom intertwines with Portu-guese commerce, New Christian networks, and shifting definitions of identity that compli-cate modern narratives of victimhood and perpetration.
Cristãos novos portugueses dominaram o tráfico de escravos (1595–1640) e reintroduziram a escravidão na cristandade.
Portugal importou arabismos e escravidão da África; Brasil só virou polo escravista após inde-pendência da Espanha em 1640.
