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The Reformation · 1627
On Restoring Salvation to the Africans
De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute
Alonso de Sandoval · 1576–1652
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What it is
A study of African peoples, languages, and the conditions of the slave ships arriving at Cartagena, written by a priest who met each vessel.
Why it lasted
The most detailed seventeenth-century account of the Atlantic slave trade from within a port — condemning its cruelties while stopping short of condemning slavery itself.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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