Maria Manuel Torrão provided us her services at the interval. either she and Linda Newson generously gave us entry to beneficial unpublished fundamental assets, as did Florbela Frade and Marco Nunes da Silva. Cátia Antunes double-checked assets on investors in Amsterdam. We thank them all. exact thank you are as a result of Tobias eco-friendly. His research of the Jews of the Petite Côte so much approximately corresponds to our personal; he has lightly prodded us the place he disagrees with our research, whilst he completes his personal very important learn in heavily similar fields. we're deeply indebted to our editor at Cambridge, Eric Crahan, for his assistance, his endurance, and his insistence that we paintings to make this e-book slightly bit greater. We additionally gratefully recognize the stimulating and worthwhile reviews of the 3 nameless readers of the manuscript. Meyer Gross has supplied encouragement all through, and has helped us in the course of the thicket of copyright legislations. through the ultimate degree of writing, on successive visits around the Atlantic, we each one skilled machine failure … neither sizzling tea nor heavy baggage are fairly suitable with MacBooks. In either situations, Wesleyan’s ITS supplied emergency help to salvage either our information and our restricted Acknowledgments xv time operating jointly. specified thank you are because of Phil Dean for “saving the day,” and to João Marques, in Lisbon. Very specified thank you are because of Avra Mark. Her editorial abilities and her experience of fashion helped us higher to satisfy the problem of merging the writing of 2 authors, just one of whom was once operating in his local language. And her Portuguese language abilities, even after a long time of no longer utilizing that language, amaze either the local speaker and the neophyte between us. Maria de Sousa not just conscientiously reviewed the fashion of many of the booklet but additionally used to be a resource of notion and encouragement from the start of the learn until eventually the final strains of our writing. An previous model of bankruptcy 1 at the start seemed in heritage in Africa, vol. 31, 2004, and an past model of bankruptcy five seemed in background in Africa, vol. 34, 2007. parts of bankruptcy 2 seemed in Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan, eds. , Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews within the Age of Mercantilism, 1500–1800, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins college Press, 2009. creation this can be a e-book concerning the heritage of Portuguese Jews in an abroad diaspora. In a feeling it's a bankruptcy of the historic narrative of Portuguese discoveries and growth, and of the competition with different ecu nations. It definitely is a part of the lengthy historical past of Sephardic makes an attempt to outlive and comply with hostile stipulations, at a second after they have been forced to hunt a lifetime of security in lands far-off from the Iberian Peninsula. however it is, to boot, a bankruptcy of the background of West Africa. including either Jewish and Christian Portuguese, African societies opened coastal and riverine paths to an Atlantic global in building because the 15th century. In doing so that they shared accountability for the influence in their neighborhood and neighborhood histories all through a much broader, even a world international.