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The Roman Catholic Church and Slavery in José Evaristo d'Almeida's O Escravo (The Slave)

2016; Wiley; Volume: 55; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/dial.12260

1540-6385

Jairzinho Lopes Pereira,

Literature, Culture, and Criticism

Abstract This installment of Dialog's Theology in Film and Fiction series introduces the first Cape Verdean novel, The Slave , by José Evaristo d'Almeida (1856). This vivid story depicts a number of social and moral issues tied together within the tragic plot of the novel. The article discusses the historical relationship of the Roman Catholic Church to slavery, the colonial history of Portugal and Cape Verde, and the theological use of the Bible in this history. This discussion is applied to Almeida's novel, revealing the manifold nineteenth‐century varieties of the literary history and theology of colonialism.