Cartagena de Indias and the Portuguese slave traders in the first half of the 17th century [Cartagena de Indias y los mercaderes portugueses de esclavos en la primera mitad del siglo xvii]

Anais de Historia de Alem-Mar
Volume 16, 2015, Pages 430-450

Cartagena de Indias and the Portuguese slave traders in the first half of the 17th century [Cartagena de Indias y los mercaderes portugueses de esclavos en la primera mitad del siglo xvii] (Review)

Ortega A.V. , Castillo G.D.A.

^a Departamento de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Del Norte, Colombia
^b Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Abstract

In the early sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Cartagena de Indias became one of the major ports of the articulation of the Atlantic trade and the regional trade in the Caribbean. As a fleet port authorized for the introduction of slaves, it was an attractive place for the arrival of the Portuguese slave traders. They played a crucial role in shaping the society Cartagena. In this article, using sources from the Archivo General de Indias, we rebuild the lives of some of these active traders. © 2015 Universidade Nova de Lisboa. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Slavery Seventeenth Century Portuguese traders Human trafficking Storage of slaves Colonial society Carrera de Indias Cartagena de Indias

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047074942&partnerID=40&md5=e821de81a6dbdeecfa9c3e4c3803ae7b

ISSN: 08749671

Original Language: Portuguese