Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the making of the Anglo-Dutch Americas, 1585-1660

331 readable pages of well organized, very well researched African History describing the complicated relationships amongst Angolan Kings, Queens and Lords; Congolese Christian Kings; Catholic Jesuits and Capuchins; and Portuguese slave traders for the period named in the Title. Co-winner of the 2008 Melville Herskovits Award for the Best Book Published in African Studies. Includes a comprehensive index and an appendix on Names of Africans Appearing in Early Colonial Records.