{"product_id":"the-heretic-of-cacheu-paperback-by-toby-green","title":"The Heretic of Cacheu Paperback by Toby Green","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003ePenguin UK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-08-25)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e288\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781802061581\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e283.5\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e19.81 x 12.9 x 2.24\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A stunning global history of West Africa ... with this new tour de force, Green confirms himself as the most innovative historian, writer, and thinker of his generation'\u003c\/b\u003e Ana Lucia Araujo, author of\u003ci\u003e Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed by Senegambian healers: the \u003ci\u003edjabakós\u003c\/i\u003e. But who was Peres? And why was the Portuguese Inquisition so concerned with policing the faith of a West African woman in today’s Guinea-Bissau?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCacheu\u003c\/i\u003e Toby Green takes us to the heart of this conundrum, but also into the atmosphere of a very distant time and place. We learn how people in seventeenth-century Cacheu built their houses, what they wore, how they worshipped – and also the work they did, how they had fun, and how they healed themselves from illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough this story, the haunting realities of the growing slave trade and the rise of European empires emerge in shocking detail. By the 1650s, the relationship between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas was already an \u003ci\u003eold \u003c\/i\u003eone, with slaving entrepots, colonies, and military bases interweaving over many generations. But Cacheu also challenged the dynamic. It was globally connected to places ranging from China and India to Brazil and Colombia, and women like Crispina Peres ran the town and challenged the patriarchy of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, through the surviving documents recording Peres’s case, we can see what this world was really like.\u003ci\u003e Cacheu \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary act of historical recovery. It is the story of a seventeenth-century West African woman, but also of the shifting, sophisticated world in which she lived – its beliefs, values and people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eToby Green \u003c\/b\u003ehas worked widely with colleagues across Africa, organising events in collaboration with institutions in Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique Sierra Leone and the Gambia. His books have been translated into twelve languages and include the award-winning \u003ci\u003eA Fistful of Shells\u003c\/i\u003e and (as co-editor) \u003ci\u003eGuinea-Bissau: Micro-State to ‘Narco-State’\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes extensively for the media, including in recent years \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUnHerd\u003c\/i\u003e. He has worked on curriculum change in the teaching of African history both in the UK and in West Africa, and has been a member of the UK government’s Model History Curriculum Advisory Group. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47919509242017,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781802061581","price":26.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781802061581.jpg?v=1790237223","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-heretic-of-cacheu-paperback-by-toby-green","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}