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Slavery in New Spain was based mainly on the importation of slaves from West and Central Africa to work in the colony in the enormous plantations, ranches or mining areas of the viceroyalty, since their physical constitution supposedly made them suitable for working in warm areas.
The Spanish enslavement of Africans began with Portuguese captains Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão in 1441. Three years later, the first large group of enslaved Africans, 235 enslaved people, came with Lançarote de Freitas. In 1462, Portuguese slave traders began to operate in Seville, Spain.
The Spanish and New World Slavery. Columbus before the Queen, painting by Emanuel Luetze, courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum, 1843. The Spanish monarchs initially sought to curtail Columbus's slaving exploits in the Caribbean.
Slavery in colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Iberian precedents to New World slavery. Legal status of forced labor of indigenous peoples. Reinstatement of slavery for Mapuche rebels. Africans in the early colonial period. Black slavery in the late colonial period. Fugitive slaves in Spanish territories. Ending of slavery.
Sabrina Smith. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1406. Published online: 17 April 2024. Summary. The European demand for African captives in Spanish America began during the conquest and settlement of the New World. This labor demand quickly became a part of the global forced movement of captive Africans.
The Black Blood of New Spain: Limpieza de Sangre, Racial Violence, and Gendered Power in Early Colonial Mexico. Maria Elena Martinez. ON the morning of May 2, 1612, a Wednesday, thirty-five blacks. and mulattoes (twenty-eight men and seven women) were escorted by New Spain's authorities through the streets of. Mexico City.
The Spanish, still requiring laborers, began to import people kidnapped into slavery from Africa. The government of Spain profited greatly from its share of precious metals found in the New World. Historians estimate that between 1500 and 1650 Spain carried more than 180 tons of gold and 16,000 tons of silver from New Spain to Europe.
