RT Journal Article T1 Global trafficking and local bankruptcies: Anglo-Spanish slave trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1786-1790 A1 Ibarra, Antonio K1 Labour and consumers K1 Latin America K1 Buenos Aires K1 Business history K1 Royal Company of the Philippines K1 Slave trade K1 Proyecto GECEM AB 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. PB Taylor&Francis / Routledge SN 1478-8810 YR 2021 FD 2021-08-19 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11722 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11722 LA en NO Atlantic Studies NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu. NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO DS RIO RD May 8, 2026