From the Galleons to the Highlands

Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas

Edited by Alex BoruckiDavid EltisDavid Wheat

$34.95	Paperback	978-0-8263-6116-5	May 2020
$95.00	Hardcover	978-0-8263-6115-8	May 2020
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$34.95
Paperback
978-0-8263-6116-5
May 2020

$95.00
Hardcover
978-0-8263-6115-8
May 2020

$95.00
E-book
978-0-8263-6117-2
May 2020

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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.

Subjects: Latin AmericaHistory

Contributor Bios

Alex Borucki is an associate professor of history at the University of California Irvine and the author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (UNM Press).

David Eltis is the Robert W. Woodruff Emeritus Professor of History at Emory University and the author of The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas.

David Wheat is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University and the author of Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640.

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Introduction: Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
Chapter One. The Size and Direction of the Slave Trade to the Spanish Americas
Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
Chapter Two. The Early Iberian Slave Trade to the Spanish Caribbean, 1500–1580
Marc Eagle and David Wheat
Chapter Three. The Slave Trade to Colonial Mexico: Revising from Puebla de los Ángeles, 1590–1640
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Chapter Four. West Central Africans in the Province of Guatemala, 1605–1655
Paul Lokken
Chapter Five. Slave Trading in Antequera and Interregional Slave Traffic in New Spain, 1680–1710
Sabrina Smith
Chapter Six. Securing Subjecthood: Free and Enslaved Economies within the Pacific Slave Trade
Rachel Sarah O’Toole
Chapter Seven. From Asiento to Spanish Networks: Slave Trading in the Río de la Plata, 1700–1810
Alex Borucki
Chapter Eight. The Rise and Fall of the Cuban Slave Trade: New Data, New Paradigms
David Eltis and Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
Chapter Nine. Reassessing the Slave Trade to Cuba, 1790–1820
Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
Chapter Ten. Routes into Eighteenth-Century Cuban Slavery: African Diaspora and Geopolitics
Elena Schneider
Chapter Eleven. Early Spanish Antislavery and the Abolition of the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Emily Berquist Soule

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