J esuits as P etitioners

Antonio Ruiz de Montoya and the Issue of Indigenous Slavery in the Early Seventeenth-Century South Atlantic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8877063
AutoresFrancismar Alex Lopes De Carvalho (0000-0002-6172-3363, University of Bonn, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen80
Número3
Páginas433-469
Fecha de publicación2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/tam.2022.150
OpenAlexW4385631124
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas4

In the Spanish monarchy, corporations, religious orders, and other petitioners kept procurators in Madrid to lobby the royal councils on their behalf. Drawing on an efficient network of information, the Madrid-based Jesuit procurators were known for their insistence on solving the financial and personnel needs of several missions throughout the New World. This article analyzes a series of petitions composed by Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in the late 1630s on behalf of Jesuit missions in Paraguay. These missions had been harassed by Portuguese slavers, who captured tens of thousands of natives in this region. Ruiz de Montoya's petitions reveal that the Jesuits’ lobbying actions had a much greater impact than has been assumed. Far from confining themselves to asking for material and human resources for the missions, the Jesuits proposed that the Spanish crown make a large-scale intervention in the administration of Portuguese domains in the South Atlantic, a program that Madrid would have implemented were it not for Portuguese independence in 1640

Economic history · Independence (probability theory · Indigenous · Intervention (counseling · Monarchy · Political science · Portuguese · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Medicine · Philosophy