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The rise of Portobelo and the transformation of the Spanish American slave trade, 1640s-1730s: transimperial connections and intra-American shipping

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http://hdl.handle.net/10433/6763
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7573495
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García Montón, Alejandro
Palabras clave
Slave trade
Spanish America
Panama
Early Modern History
Commerce
Proyecto ArtEmpire
Publication date
2019
Abstract
This article analyzes the rise of Portobelo as the most important center of the Spanish American slave trade from the 1660s to the 1730s. Portobelo¿s emergence was one of the most striking results of the structural transformation that the slave trade to Spanish America underwent between the 1640s and the 1650s. In these years, intra-American transimperial shipping displaced direct slave voyages from Africa to the Spanish Caribbean. By focusing on the elements that underpinned Portobelo¿s emergence, this essay shows how shifting transimperial connections affected the making and unmaking of the intraimperial circuits that supplied slaves to Spanish America. This approach reveals the inner workings, evolving links, and disputed hierarchies that interlocked port towns with inland cities and also structured the African diaspora in Spanish America and the emergence of a black Pacific.
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To research this article I received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union¿s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, grant agreement ERC CoG 648535. Additional funds were offered by the Spanish authorities through the project ¿Comercio, conflicto y cultura en el Istmo de Panama: Una arteria del Imperio y la crisis global, 1513¿1671¿ (HAR2014-52260-P).

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