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African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Ballantine Books and a gift for analyticA thought provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized