Under Our Skin av Joaquim Arena

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<b>1570: A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods.</b> The crowd is large, and more than half of it is Black. Most are enslaved African people performing an array of duties, but there are free Africans too, and somebody else: a Black knight astride a horse. <br><br>Four hundred and fifty years later, novelist and journalist Joaquim Arena stands in a museum, transfixed by the character depicted on this canvas by an anonymous Flemish painter. He doesn¿t know it yet, but the knight is Joao de S¿anasco, a one-time slave who nevertheless became an Afro-Portuguese nobleman. So begins <i>Under Our Skin</i>, a wide-ranging investigation that seeks to know the people of the early African diaspora, and tell their stories.<br><br>Arena was born in the tiny state of Cape Verde, a small chain of islands off the West Coast of Africa which were uninhabited before Portugal chose them for a slave-trade pos