This book is a detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

In Europeans and Africans Michał Tymowski analyses the first contacts between the Portuguese and other Europeans and Western Africans in the 15th and early 16t

At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution wi

Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of