Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking
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Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Alonso de Sandoval (1576-1652) was a Jesuit missionary in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for his work to convert enslaved Black Africans to Catholicism. This included the publication of De instauran...
