Chasing the<i>Avença</i>: An Investigation of Illicit Slave Trading in Santo Domingo at the End of the Portuguese<i>Asiento</i>Period

Eagle, Marc

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“…The rest of the localities-Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Havana, Margarita, Riohacha, Cumaná, Honduras, and Guatemala-received a negligible number of licenses, but were actually enmeshed in an intricate weave of both real and simulated arribadas forzosas that brought hundreds of enslaved Africans to their shores and linked them to the wider transatlantic slave trade (Wolff, 2022, pp. 115-151;Eagle, 2014Eagle, , 2018Lokken, 2013Lokken, , 2020Castillo Palma, 2016;Domínguez, 2021). Santo Domingo, for example, registered 55 arribadas between January 1585 and August 1593, 12 of these transporting slaves (Eagle, 2018, p. 132).…”

Section: The Flow Of Commodified Africans Into the Spanish Caribbeanmentioning

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Liquid Geographies of Transatlantic Slavery: Caribbean Pathways of Forced Migration, 1580-1640

Wolff

2023

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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Slave transshipment and resale routes within the Spanish Caribbean were a fundamental part of the Atlantic slave trade. Enslaved Africans brought to the region during the late XVI and first half of the XVII century were forcibly made to traverse multiple circum-Caribbean points throughout their lives in a continuous process of de-racination, re-commodification, and forced mobility. Maritime regional slave routes linked seemingly marginal locations in the Caribbean like Cumaná, Margarita, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, or Trujillo with wider regional flows of peoples, capital, and commodities, as well as with the circulation in the larger Atlantic. Veracruz and Cartagena each served as an axis for these regional slave transshipment and resale routes, while Havana and Cartagena both functioned as re-shipment springboards for Veracruz.

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Liquid Geographies of Transatlantic Slavery: Caribbean Pathways of Forced Migration, 1580-1640

Wolff

2023

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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“…34Eagle, “Chasing the Avença,” 102–3; Mauro, Portugal , o Brasil e o Atlantico , 1:220–1. For the avenças issued by the slaving duties contractor of Cape Verde, see Torrão, “Rotas comerciais,” 78–9.…”

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The Ordeals of Colonial Contracting: Reactions to and Repercussions of Two Failed State-Private Ventures in Habsburg Portugal (1622–1628)

Pereira¹

2019

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Among the solutions devised by early modern Western European states to engage with the private sector in the governance of their overseas empires, the adjudication of revenue farms and colonial monopolies was often dismissed by historians on the grounds of being coercive, inefficient, and risk-exempt for the contractors. In reality, however, the threat of financial hardship and insolvency was very real, and not infrequently led to contractual removal, the seizure of collateralized assets, and even the imprisonment of the concessionaires.This article approaches the neglected topic of failure in big business in early seventeenth-century Portugal, an overlooked case of a contractor state that relied extensively on the adjudication of government contracts to finance and rule its overseas empire. By looking into the downward trajectories of two tax-farmers and the collapse of their contractual dealings, light will be shed on how the Crown and private entrepreneurs reacted to the repercussions of failure in these early modern public-private partnerships. It will also be shown how the road leading to termination was very much shaped by the political relationships between the Crown and its contractors and can only be understood in the context of wider relationships of brokerage, credit, and service between the two.

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The Puebla Slave Market, 1600–1700

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Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico

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Chasing theAvença: An Investigation of Illicit Slave Trading in Santo Domingo at the End of the PortugueseAsientoPeriod

Cited by 11 publications

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Liquid Geographies of Transatlantic Slavery: Caribbean Pathways of Forced Migration, 1580-1640

Liquid Geographies of Transatlantic Slavery: Caribbean Pathways of Forced Migration, 1580-1640

The Ordeals of Colonial Contracting: Reactions to and Repercussions of Two Failed State-Private Ventures in Habsburg Portugal (1622–1628)

The Puebla Slave Market, 1600–1700

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