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Enslaved by African angels: Swedenborg on African superiority, evangelization, and slavery

Vincent Roy-Di PiazzaPostdoctoral Research Fellow Humanities Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 401-431 | Published online: 17 Apr 2023

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