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During the 1470s, Spanish merchants began to trade large numbers of slaves. Slaves were auctioned at market at a cathedral, and subsequently were transported to cities all over Imperial Spain. This led to the spread of Moorish, African, and Christian slavery in Spain. By the 16th century, 7.4 percent of the population in Seville, Spain were ...
The Sociedad Abolicionista Española was founded by Julio Vizcarrondo, a former slave owner who had manumitted his slaves. Local sections of the organization was established in a number of cities in Spain. The members of the organization was primarily composed by radical, progressive and liberal male politicians or their sympathizers.
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The Spanish colonies in the Caribbean were among the last to abolish slavery. While the British abolished slavery by 1833, Spain abolished slavery in Puerto Rico in 1873. On the mainland of colonies, Spain ended African slavery in the eighteenth century.
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For the last sixteen years of the transatlantic slave trade, Spain was the only transatlantic slave-trading empire. [158] Following the British Slave Trade Act 1807 and U.S. bans on the African slave trade that same year, it declined, but the period thereafter still accounted for 28.5% of the total volume of the Atlantic slave trade.
The Siete Partidas did incorporate the rights of slaves to acquire a peculium, although the use of these to purchase freedom began as a custom rather a facet of the law. [1] These customs developed as a result of the slaves themselves whose early efforts to petition the courts resulted in its acceptance by the Spanish as a customary right. [3]
On 14 May 1524, the royal iron arrived in New Spain, sent by the king of Spain to mark (on the leg, buttock, arm, or face) Indian slaves. It was known as the "ransom iron". Subsequently, the prohibition against enslavement of indigenous people by purchase or inheritance was successfully enforced.