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Ana Lucia Araujo, "Forgetting and
Remembering the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Legacy of Brazilian Slave Merchant Francisco FĂ©lix de Souza," Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, ed. Ana Lucia Araujo, Mariana P. Candido, Paul E. Lovejoy (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011),
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in his rise to power. Upon de Sousa's death, the family that he had started with his
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