Toby Green
Historian of seventeenth-century West Africa and author at the University of Chicago Press; researcher of the transatlantic slave trade and inequality with multiple prior books including A Fistful of Shells.
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Jan 27, 2026 • 44min
Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Toby Green, historian of seventeenth-century West Africa and author of A Fistful of Shells, recounts the life and trial of Crispina Peres, a powerful Cacheu trader accused by the Portuguese Inquisition. Short scenes evoke Cacheu’s streets, trade networks, healing rituals, female-led economies, and how a single trial reflected global shifts in empire and the slave trade.
