Rapto em Lisboa
Title:
Rapto em Lisboa
Author:
Cohn, Paul D.
Santos, Maria Jose
ISBN:
9789722909174
Publication Information:
Lisboa : Difel, 2008
Physical Description:
400 p.
General Note:
Titulo original: Sao tome: Journey to the Abyss--Portugal's Stolen Children
Abstract:
In 1485, the Portuguese crown and Catholic Church began to kidnap Jewish children, forcibly convert the young conscripts, and ship them to Sao Tome Island to work the sugar plantations. This is a little-known chapter of the Diaspora. The collision of slavery, sugar agriculture, and discovery of the Americas transformed this island colony into the nidus of the wholesale black slave trade that infected Africa and Western commerce for the next 350 years. Sao Tome tells the story of young Marcel Saulo abducted with other children from their synagogue in Lisbon and shipped 4,000 miles to the West-African island.
Subject:
| Jews -- Persecutions -- Portugal -- Lisbon -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction |
| Lisbon (Portugal) -- History -- Fiction |
Summary:
In 1485, the Portuguese crown and Catholic Church began to kidnap Jewish children, forcibly convert the young conscripts, and ship them to Sao Tome Island to work the sugar plantations. This is a little-known chapter of the Diaspora. The collision of slavery, sugar agriculture, and discovery of the Americas transformed this island colony into the nidus of the wholesale black slave trade that infected Africa and Western commerce for the next 350 years. Sao Tome tells the story of young Marcel Saulo abducted with other children from their synagogue in Lisbon and shipped 4,000 miles to the West-African island.