%0 Journal Article %A Ibarra, Antonio %T Global trafficking and local bankruptcies: Anglo-Spanish slave trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1786-1790 %D 2021 %@ 1478-8810 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11722 %X This research focuses on the operations of the Royal Company of the Philippines in the global market, in particular on the slave trade between Africa and Spanish America, as a way to examine the local dimensions of global trade. It identifies the causes and consequences of a failed venture that, despite its failure, opened a new cycle in the Río de la Plata slave trade and its place in the global economy of the late eighteenth century. %K Labour and consumers %K Latin America %K Buenos Aires %K Business history %K Royal Company of the Philippines %K Slave trade %K Proyecto GECEM %~