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It is 1543. I see a storm begins.
Tanegashima, Kagoshima, Kyushu.
デウス (Deusu)
Births will follow wombs
oceans
wounds.
Lúcio De Sousa, The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Leiden: Brill, 2019, 594 pp. ISBN 9789004388079. $217.00.
Whereas partus sequitur ventrem ("the birth follows the womb") laws and their effects on the lives of enslaved women and their children are well understood in the Atlantic context, they remain entirely unstudied in the case of the slave trade in Asia, in particular Portuguese Asia, the string of entrepôts between India and Japan. McManus, Stuart
Slavery in Medieval Japan Thomas Nelson Monumenta NipponicaVol. 59, No. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 463-492 (30 pages) Published by: Sophia University
