The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa

The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa

Toby Green’s "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" is a richly detailed and deeply human book centered on the life of Crispina Peres, a powerful African woman trader prosecuted by the Portuguese Inquisition in the 1660s. The book opens a window onto the everyday realities, moral tensions, and global connections of early modern West Africa. The book will be of interest to historians …