Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Two Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Côte
- 2 Jewish Identity in Senegambia
- 3 Religious Interaction
- 4 The Blade Weapons Trade in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
- 5 The Luso-African Ivories as Historical Source for the Weapons Trade and for the Jewish Presence in Guinea of Cape Verde
- 6 The Later Years
- Conclusion
- Appendix I The Jewish Traders of Porto d'Ale and Joal, Their Relatives, and Some of Their New Christian Partners in Senegambia and in the United Provinces and Portugal: A Comprehensive List (ca. 1606–ca. 1635)
- Appendix II A Chronological Outline of the Institutional Proceedings against the Jews of Porto d'Ale and Joal (1611–1643)
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix I - The Jewish Traders of Porto d'Ale and Joal, Their Relatives, and Some of Their New Christian Partners in Senegambia and in the United Provinces and Portugal: A Comprehensive List (ca. 1606–ca. 1635)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Two Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Côte
- 2 Jewish Identity in Senegambia
- 3 Religious Interaction
- 4 The Blade Weapons Trade in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
- 5 The Luso-African Ivories as Historical Source for the Weapons Trade and for the Jewish Presence in Guinea of Cape Verde
- 6 The Later Years
- Conclusion
- Appendix I The Jewish Traders of Porto d'Ale and Joal, Their Relatives, and Some of Their New Christian Partners in Senegambia and in the United Provinces and Portugal: A Comprehensive List (ca. 1606–ca. 1635)
- Appendix II A Chronological Outline of the Institutional Proceedings against the Jews of Porto d'Ale and Joal (1611–1643)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Abraham Farque – “Homem português” born in Aveiro. The Portuguese Christian name was unknown to the Inquisition witnesses.
António Lopes de Mesquita/Moisés de Mesquita – A mulatto of Oporto, he is said to be “mulatto do Porto” but also “do Algarve” (ANTT, Inquisição de Lisboa, livro 205, fol. 294v and 576), which makes it difficult precisely to identify his origins. As the other two mestizo Jews referred to in the Inquisition sources are from two different places in Alentejo (an anonymous individual) and Algarve (Diogo de Sousa from Faro), both regions in the south of Portugal, he is the only one mentioned with a Oporto origin. He returns to Amsterdam by the early 1620s and rapidly achieves high status within the Amsterdam community (see Chapter 6). In ca. 1633, a “fulano [unknown first name] de Mesquita,” who seems not to be the same man, but a son or a relative (ANTT, Inquisição de Lisboa, livro 217, fol. 464), is cited as a public Jew in Porto d'Ale. Moisés de Mesquita died in 1680 in Amsterdam.
“Fulano” de Mesquita – See António Lopes de Mesquita.
António Marques – He is accused of having protected or collaborated with the public Jews (ANTT, Inquisição de Lisboa, livro 205, fol. 577).
António Nunes alias António Noble, António Nobre or António Nunes Nobre – He is the brother of João Lopes da Costa alias Lourenço Francisco; both arrived on the Guinea coast in the ships of the contratador João Soeiro.
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- The Forgotten DiasporaJewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World, pp. 211 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011