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João Pedro Marques. 2006. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, trans. Richard Wall. European Expansion and Global Interaction Series

João Pedro Marques. 2006. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, trans. Richard Wall. European Expansion and Global Interaction Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. 304 pp. ISBN 978-1571814470, $80.00 (cloth)

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Between 1810 and 1868, ships with Portuguese flags carried approximately two-thirds of the African slaves destined for the Americas; yet, considerably less is known about this period of Luso-slavocracy than is known about British anti-slavery efforts or the closing of slave importations in Brazil and Cuba. Taking the hunch that Portuguese opinion and politics should also be considered in this story, João Pedro Marques set out to explore archives in Lisbon and London. In Sounds of Silence, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ian Read

Soka University of America


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