The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade. Spanish America received African captives not only directly via the transatlantic slave trade but also from slave markets in the Portuguese, English, Dutch, French, and Danish Americas, ultimately absorbing more enslaved Africans than any other imperial jurisdiction in the Americas except Brazil. The contributors focus on the histories of slave trafficking to, within, and across highly diverse regions of Spanish America throughout the entire colonial period, with themes ranging from the earliest known transatlantic slaving voyages during the sixteenth century to the evolution of antislavery efforts within the Spanish empire. Students and scholars will find the comprehensive study and analysis in From the Galleons to the Highlands invaluable in examining the study of the slave trade to colonial Spanish America. Understanding Latin America demands dialogue, deep exploration, and frank discussion of key topics. Founded by Lyman L. Johnson in 1992 and edited since 2013 by Kris Lane, the Diálogos Series focuses on innovative scholarship in Latin American history and related fields. The series, the most successful of its type, includes specialist works accessible to a wide readership and a variety of thematic titles, all ideally suited for classroom adoption by university and college teachers.
Author(s): Alex Borucki, David Eltis, David Wheat
Series: Diálogos Series
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Year: 2020
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Introduction: Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
Chapter 1. The Size and Direction of the Slave Trade to the Spanish Americas by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
Chapter 2. The Early Iberian Slave Trade to the Spanish Caribbean, 1500–1580 by Marc Eagle and David Wheat
Chapter 3. The Slave Trade to Colonial Mexico: Revising from Puebla to de los Ángeles, 1590–1640 by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Chapter 4. West Central Africans in the Province of Guatemala, 1605–1655 by Paul Lokken
Chapter 5. Slave Trading in Antequera and Interregional Slave Traffice in New Spain, 1680–1710 by Sabrina Smith
Chapter 6. Securing Subjecthood: Free and Enslaved Economies within the Pacific Slave Trade by Rachel Sarah O’Toole
Chapter 7. From Asiento to Spanish Networks: Slave Trading in the Río de la Plata, 1700–1810 by Alex Borucki
Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of the Cuban Slave Trade: New Data, New Paradigms by David Eltis and Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
Chapter 9. Reassessing the Slave Trade to Cuba, 1790–1820 by Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
Chapter 10. Routes into Eighteenth-Century Cuban Slavery: African Diaspora and Geopolitics by Elena Schneider
Chapter 11. Early Spanish Antislavery and the Abolition of the Slave Trade to Spanish America by Emily Berquist Soule
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