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Slavery in the Spanish American viceroyalties included indigenous peoples, enslaved people from Africa, and enslaved people from Asia. The economic and social institution of slavery existed throughout the Spanish Empire including Spain itself. Enslaved Africans were brought over to the continent for their labour, indigenous people were enslaved ...
Spanish slavery can be traced to the Phoenician and Roman eras. In the 9th century the Muslim Moorish rulers and local Jewish merchants traded in Spanish and Eastern European Christian slaves. [ citation needed ] After the "discovery" of the " New World ", the Spanish colonialists decided to use it for commercial production and mining because ...
The Spanish crown collected a duty on each "pieza", and not on each individual slave delivered. [17] Spain had neither direct access to the African sources of slaves nor the ability to transport them, so the asiento system was a way to ensure a legal supply of Africans to the New World, which brought revenue to the Spanish crown.
The Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil. New York: St Martin's Press 1982. Schwartz, Stuart B. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia 1550-1835. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1985. Sharp, William Frederick. Slavery on the Spanish Frontier: The Colombian Chocó, 1680-1810. Norman: University of ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Slavery in the Spanish Empire" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Spanish regular and irregular forces fighting in the Somosierra Pass against a French invading army. The Peninsular War was the trigger for conflicts in Spanish America in the absence of a legitimate monarch. The Peninsular War began an extended period of instability in the worldwide Spanish monarchy that lasted until 1823.
Jean Saint Malo in French (died June 19, 1784), also known as Juan San Maló in Spanish, was the leader of a group of runaway enslaved Africans, known as Maroons, in Spanish Louisiana. Saint Malo and his band escaped to a marshy area near Lake Borgne , with weapons obtained from free people of color and plantation enslaved .
[6] [page needed] He was captured and sold into slavery in Mexico, where he was called Gaspar Yanga. Before the end of the slave trade, New Spain had the sixth-highest slave population (estimated 200,000) of the Americas after Brazil (over 4.9 million), the Caribbean (over 4 million), Cuba (over 1 million), Hispaniola and the United States ...