Slavery and Religious Conversion in Portugal's Indian Empire, 1500-1700 Julie Bywater He identifies blockages in the

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Slavery and Religious Conversion in Portugal's Indian Empire, 1500-1700 Julie Bywater He identifies blockages in theIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enslaved Africans and Asians were part of the larger Portuguese project of building and maintaining a Catholic empire in the Indian Ocean. Both the Church and the Crown influenced the owner slave relationship across households, the most basic organizational unit of power over the populace. Responsible for their enslaved dependents' conversion to Catholicism, slaveholders became religious stewards whose