Ibarra, Antonio2021-11-222021-11-222021-08-19Atlantic Studies1478-881010.1080/14788810.2021.1908084http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11722GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu.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.application/pdfenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Labour and consumersLatin AmericaBuenos AiresBusiness historyRoyal Company of the PhilippinesSlave tradeProyecto GECEMjournal articleopen access