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The Domestic Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Robert L. Brady
Robert L. Brady*
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Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa
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The International slave trade which developed between the African slave depots and Spanish America during the sixteenth century has been the subject of several significant studies. These indicate in considerable detail the origins of the slave trade, the sources from which Negro slaves were obtained, and the historical development of the commerce within the Spanish imperial system. There emerges a broad view of the flow of human merchandize, in generally increasing volume, across the Atlantic and of the increasing refinement of its regulation. Other studies of mining, agricultural and pastoral occupations, the encomienda, and the urban guild system reveal the utilization of the Negro slaves as a labor force in New Spain. The distribution of the slaves among the various occupations resulted in a dispersion which makes classification by type of work or location tenuous. This combination of a unified pattern of international trade and a disparate utilization of the slaves suggests an area of fruitful investigation. That area is the domestic trade by which the slaves arriving at the ports of New Spain ultimately reached the consumers who used their labor.

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Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , January 1968 , pp. 281 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1968

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