Questions about Spain's involvement in the slave trade?

[The Lawspeaker]

Wiki is just not being clear on the issue. Can someone find me some more detailed information regarding the Spanish slave trade, where the slaves came from, what their distribution and (possible) number was ? Etc.

I'd be much grateful.

[perikolez]

Wiki is just not being clear on the issue. Can someone find me some more detailed information regarding the Spanish slave trade, where the slaves came from, what their distribution and (possible) number was ? Etc.

I'd be much grateful.

Spanish didnt trade slaves in great amounts ,because they hadnt many factories in the african coasts. Most of the slaves went to Cuba , Santo Domingo or Colombia carried by potugueses , french or dutch traders.

[KarmaPolice]

In Hispaniola (Haiti- DR)

France brought slaves mainly from Sene-Gambia and Benin. Most Haitians today have Senegalese Ancestry, they fled to the Spain's Santo Domingo Colony. The Spanish also requested Slaves from France from these areas .

interesting source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_conquest_of_Senegal

Spain brought some slaves from Mali (Fulanis) , some of them could even had possible reached the English colonies in N.America. I just noticed not long ago that in my country we have this word we used often "Fulanito" meaning " a certain person", it could most likely be of Malian origins :).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Spanish_New_World_colonies

slavery timeline-
http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/chrono2.htm

[Alvarado]

Here's the thing, asiento de negros.


Asiento de negros, between the early 16th and the mid-18th century, an agreement between the Spanish crown and a private person or another sovereign power by which the latter was granted a monopoly in supplying African slaves for the Spanish colonies in the Americas. The contractor (asentista) agreed to pay a certain amount of money to the crown for the monopoly and to deliver a stipulated number of male and female slaves for sale in the American markets. The first such contractor was a Genoese company that in 1517 agreed to supply 1,000 slaves over an eight-year period. In 1528 an agreement was reached with a German firm to supply 4,000 slaves. For its monopoly the firm paid 20,000 ducats annually to the crown. Each slave was sold at a price not exceeding 45 ducats.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/38687/asiento-de-negros


The Iberian leaders in slave trade were the Portuguese.


Portuguese slave trade statistics, which have been fairly thoroughly studied, are only fragmentary for the period down to 1807. However, it seems probable that close to 10,000 slaves per year were being exported from Angola to the New World in the seventeenth century, without taking into account contraband.

In the eighteenth century the numbers are known to have fluctuated quite sharply but overall were somewhat greater, particularly towards the century's end. According to Alencastro just over two million live slaves were imported to Brazil from Africa during the period 1701-1810 almost 18,500 per year. The vast majority of these were shipped from Angola.

A. R. Disney. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire.

[Raikaswinþs]

Initially, enslavement represented one means by which the Columbus and other Castilians (Spaniards) mobilized native labor and met production quotas. Unlike the Portuguese slave trade, los Reyes Católicos were religiously against developing that for Castile and Aragon with the slaves of Columbus, ordering many of the survivors returned to their Caribbean homelands. The papal bull Sublimus Dei of 1537, to which Spain was committed also officially banned slavery. However, other forms of coerced labor used were the Indian Reductions method, the encomienda system, repartimiento, and the mita.

[Alvarado]

Wiki is just not being clear on the issue. Can someone find me some more detailed information regarding the Spanish slave trade, where the slaves came from, what their distribution and (possible) number was ? Etc.


Slave trade between 1492-1870

Spanish-------1.552.100

Portuguese--- 3.646.800

British---------2.064.000

French------- 1.600.200

Dutch----------500.000

Danish----------28.000

Total----------9.391.100



Distribution

México----------- 200.000
Cuba-------------702.000
Puerto Rico -------77.000
Santo Domingo----30.000
Centroamérica ----21.000
Ecuador
Panamá-----------200.000
Colombia
Venezuela--------121.000-700.000
Perú--------------95.000-300.000
Bolivia
Río de La Plata----100.000
Chile--------------6.000

Total----------1.552.000-2.336.000


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[Don]

Bravo alvarado, tus recursos no tienen parangón.