Sails and Shadows: How the Portuguese Opened the Atlantic and Launched the Slave Trade
Author:   Patricia Seed
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520415874


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 January 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Sails and Shadows: How the Portuguese Opened the Atlantic and Launched the Slave Trade


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Author:   Patricia Seed
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520415874


ISBN 10:   0520415876
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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Contents   List of Illustrations   Introduction 1. Nature Intervenes 2. Around the Bulge: Bojador, 1434 3. From Mistaken Expectations to Conquests: The Sahara, 1434–1444 4. How Trading Replaced Conquest, 1444–1460 5. Language: How Enslaved Interpreters Established Trade 6. A Painted Ship upon a Painted Ocean, 1460–1470 7. Gold at Last: The Route to Mina, 1470–1480 8. A Star to Steer Her By 9. The Deepest River and the Oldest Desert, 1480–1486 10. A First Glimpse of the Indian Ocean, 1486–1488 11. Crisscrossing the Atlantic, 1497 12. Encounters Along the African Coast and in India 13. A Dreadful Mistake: The Return from India 14. The Salty Tears of the Atlantic   Notes Bibliography Index

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""Penetrating and original history."" * Kirkus Reviews *


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Patricia Seed is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the award-winning author of To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico; American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches; and Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640.

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