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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 slaves. Many historians have concluded that Renaissance and early-modern Spain had the highest amount of African slaves in Europe. [2] Spanish slavery can be traced to the Phoenician and Roman eras.
Spanish slaves (4 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Slavery in Spain" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes
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.
Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade. [101] Spain: Ferdinand VII signs a cedula banning the importation of slaves in Spanish possessions beginning in 1820, [63] in return for a £400,000 payment from Britain. [99] However, some slaves are still smuggled in after this date. Both slave ownership and internal commerce in slaves remained ...
Pages in category "Slavery in the Spanish Empire" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Muyahid ibn Yusuf ibn Ali, 11th-century leader of the Saqaliba (slaves of supposed Slavic origin) in Dénia, Spain (then part of Muslim Al Andalus). Taking advantage of the crumbling of the Caliphate of Córdoba , he and his followers rebelled, freed themselves, seized control of the city and established the Taifa of Dénia , a city-state which ...
Sociedad Abolicionista Española (English: 'Spanish Abolitionist Society') was an abolitionist organization founded in Spain 7 December 1864. [1] The purpose was the campaign for the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonial empire, specifically in the Spanish Antilles, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (2nd ed.). Gale. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-0684314433. Simpson, Leslie Byrd Simpson, The Encomienda in New Spain: The Beginning of Spanish Mexico (1950) Yeager, Timothy J. (1995). "Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labour Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America".