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First slave voyages Early Spanish Slave Trade (1519/20) Introduction Further Reading Citations Cite this page APAMLAHarvardVancouverChicagoIEEESlavery Law & Power in Early America and the British Empire (May 28, 2023) Spanish Slave Trade Voyages....
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The Mulatto GentlemAn of Esmeraldas Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas (1599) Portrait of Don Francisco de Arobe and Sons Pedro and Domingo from the Esmeraldas coast in Ecuador. The son of an escaped African slave and a native woman, Francisco submitted to the authority...
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Opening the transatlantic slave trade Royal Charter of 1518 Two years after his accession to the throne, in 1518, Emperor Charles V began to grant private licenses to merchants for the importation of African slaves to the Indies. This charter marked the opening of the...
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Papal BUll Romanus Pontifex (1455) Issued by Pope Nicholas V in 1455, this papal bull granted Portugal the legal right to hold sub-Saharan Africans in perpetual slavery, and it ordered that Christianity be propagated in all newly conquered territories Introduction ...
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Richard Ligon A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657) First published in 1657, Ligon’s account details the experiences of a royalist who escaped to the Caribbean island of Barbados during the English Civil War. Introduction Having lost much...
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Slavery in the courts Butts v. Penny(1677) A crucial English Common Law case to define African slavery, and to create mechanisms to enforce ownership and recover debts related to slave sales. Over the following decades, the English courts became a battleground over...
