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For centuries, it has been held that the ideas and movement for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade<\/a> came from western abolitionists. No input from Africans has been acknowledged.<\/p>\n As a professor of African and Atlantic history, I challenge this notion in a book titled Louren\u00e7o da Silva Mendon\u00e7a and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century<\/a>. The book is based on new material found in Portuguese, Spanish and Vatican archives. Its key argument is that the ideas…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> For centuries, it has been held that the ideas and movement for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade came from western abolitionists. No input from Africans has been acknowledged. As a professor of African and Atlantic history, I challenge this notion in a book titled Louren\u00e7o da Silva Mendon\u00e7a and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,6556,15350,8306,4302,4560,9190,257,16844,6930,254,12163,5979],"class_list":["post-184646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolan","tag-atlantic","tag-book","tag-campaign","tag-europeans","tag-long","tag-news","tag-prince","tag-slave","tag-south-africa-today","tag-started","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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