Tag: Seventeenth Century

• The Role of Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in Challenging the Atlantic Slave Trade 

  

  When studying the key abolitionists of the Atlantic slave trade, we often think of European figures like William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp. However this negates the efforts of African individuals, such as Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, who made extraordinary efforts to combat the Atlantic slave trade. Louisa Steijger analyses Mendonça’s legacy in an…

  Retrospect Journal

  09/03/2025

  Academic

  African History, Atlantic Slavery, cultural history, Early Modern History, Seventeenth Century, West African History

• Orange Juice

  

  Following the gunpowder plot in 1605, Catholic recusant Anne Vaux and the priest to whom she was devoted, Henry Garnet, wrote letters in orange juice to one another during his imprisonment. Naomi Wallace explores this correspondence in the aftermath of the infamous failed conspiracy.

  Retrospect Journal

  05/11/2023

  Fiction

  gunpowder plot, guy fawkes, History, Reformation, Religious History, Seventeenth Century

• Precursors to Salem Part Two: The Goodwin Possessions

  

  Written by Melissa Kane. This three part series explores some of the precursors to the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Part Two recounts the Goodwin Possessions of 1688.

  Retrospect Journal

  02/05/2021

  Academic

  History of North America, Seventeenth Century, Witchcraft, Withcraft