From the Galleons to the Highlands

From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas succeeds admirably in two important aspects. First, it reveals the current state of the field on the Atlantic and intra-American slave trade in the Spanish New World. Second, it is a bold research prospectus for understudied areas in the history of the Spanish Black Atlantic. Slavery in the Spanish mainland colonies has received far less attention than slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic colonies, and the scholarship on Spanish colonies has thus far largely concentrated on the Caribbean—most significantly, Cuba. This book sets out to change that. As might be expected in a volume overseen by David Eltis, Alex Borucki, and David Wheat, there are a number of excursions into quantitively driven history. These chapters are most interesting, however, when juxtaposed with histories that employ methodologies derived from cultural history. For instance, Eltis and Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez’s data-driven...

Ancient history · Archaeology · Atlantic World · Caribbean region · Genealogy · Geography · Latin Americans · Mainland · Political science · Prospectus · Scholarship · State (computer science) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · History · Law