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While the publications of Avelino Teixeira da Mota are widely known, the work of contemporary Portuguese scholars such as Maria Emilia Madeira Santos, Maria Manuel Torr\u00e3o, and Maria Jo\u00e3o Soares does not have the same visibility except among lusophone scholars. Relatively few Africanists have recognized the potential significance of the Portuguese archives for Senegambia, a region generally considered within the orbit of francophone or anglophone west Africa. The Portuguese archives remain a rich source of hitherto unknown documents, some of which will lead to fundamental transformations in our historical knowledge of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Upper Guinea coast.<\/jats:p><jats:p>The two of us have worked extensively on the history of the Luso-Africans in Senegambia and the Guinea of Cape Verde. Mark has investigated the construction and evolution of their identity. Horta, in particular, has for many years focused on their representation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Portuguese sources. Both writers have argued elsewhere\u2014following Boul\u00e8gue and Moraes\u2014that among these Luso-Africans\u2014or \u201cPortuguese\u201d as they were known in contemporary sources\u2014there were New Christians, some of whom were probably practicing Jews. Evidence of the Jewish presence in west Africa remained scanty, however, and we argued that if some \u201cChristian\u201d Portuguese were in fact practicing Jews, they were Jews primarily in the privacy of their own communities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0361541300003478","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,9]],"date-time":"2014-05-09T14:50:47Z","timestamp":1399647047000},"page":"231-256","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Two Early Seventeenth-Century Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Cote"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Peter","family":"Mark","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9 da Silva","family":"Horta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,9]]},"reference":[{"volume-title":"La Foi du Souvenir","year":"2001","author":"Wachtel","key":"S0361541300003478_ref022"},{"key":"S0361541300003478_ref038","first-page":"83","article-title":"Women and Trade in the Guinea Bissau Region: the Role of African and Luso-African women in Trade Networks From the Early 16th to the Mid 19th Century","volume":"52","author":"Havik","year":"1994","journal-title":"Studia"},{"key":"S0361541300003478_ref014","first-page":"233","volume":"3","author":"Br\u00e0sio","journal-title":"Monumenta Missionaria Africana. 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