David Wheat
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 679565 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Wheat |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Wheat |
| ASSINATURA | WHEAT D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9396-4276 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Luso-African Islands and Spanish Archipelagos in the Rise of the Atlantic Slave Trade, ca. 1519-1545
Drawing on sources produced in the Spanish Caribbean and Canary Islands, this article reconstructs the chronology of the earliest known slaving voyages from Arguin, São Tomé, and the Cape Verde Islands to the Americas. As a corrective to narratives characterizing the early Atlantic slave trade as an exclusively “Portuguese” enterprise driven largely by the priorities and directives of Iberian monarchs, it argues that the incipient traffic from Af…
Brasil y Maranhão en el tráfico de esclavos hacia el Caribe español, siglos XVI-XVII
A partir de diversas fuentes del Archivo de Indias y de otros repositorios, en este ensayo se reconstruyen tres itinerarios marítimos poco conocidos que demuestran el polifacético papel de Brasil en el tráfico de esclavos hacia el Caribe español hasta el final de la Unión Ibérica en 1640. Algunos barcos negreros zarparon de Luanda con destino en Brasil, pero arribaron en el Caribe. Otros, que partieron de Angola, hacían escala en Pernambuco u otr…
An Atlantic Slave Trade Stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and Beyond
The study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is becoming increasingly sophisticated, diverse, and international. Challenging prevailing stereotypes about the dominance of northern European business interests, García Montón’s study shows the persistent vigor of Genoa’s merchant community in this examination of the asiento system that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century and continued into the mid-eighteenth century. Along the way, he also illumin…
The Uncertain Atlantic
As the first European colony to specialize in sugar cultivation using a labor force comprised exclusively of enslaved Africans, São Tomé island in the Gulf of Guinea is often considered the birthplace of the sugar plantation complex. But the rise of sugar cultivation there took place amidst deep uncertainties. This essay examines a previously unstudied sixteenth-century São Tomé estate inventory from the vantage points of merchants and officials …
The seventeenth-century Spanish Caribbean as global crossroads
A los cincuenta años de su fallecimiento. Una nueva generación de investigadores valora la obra del historiador Serra Ràfols (1972-2022)
One way to commemorate the legacy of an intellectual —in this case, that of the historian Elías Serra Ràfols— is to reflect on the imprint of his contribution and probe his presence today, when five decades have passed since his death. There are many ways to verify his impact as a researcher in historiography and the validity of many of his postulates, contributions, methodology, human values... We have opted, as a complement to the article by Bl…
El temprano comercio de esclavos desde Angola hacia Hispanoamérica y Brasil, 1575-1595
En este ensayo empleamos fuentes nuevas y subutilizadas para ofrecer una cronología del temprano comercio de esclavos desde Angola hacia Hispanoamérica, lo cual comenzó con dos navíos que zarparon de la Isla de Luanda justo después de la llegada del primer gobernador de la Angola portuguesa. Semejantes viajes al Caribe y al Río de la Plata eran comunes a partir de 1595, pero en la década anterior la trata de africanos esclavizados desde Angola ha…
Sometidos a esclavitud
Sometidos a esclavitud: los africanos y sus descendientes en el Caribe hispano contribuye al estudio de la historia Atlántica en la que la esclavización de millones de africanos fue uno de principales factores que generaron e impulsaron el desarrollo del mundo moderno. La formación de redes comerciales, compañías mercantiles y negocios particulares contribuyeron a conectar mundos y a hacerlos interdependientes. Junto a las mercancías, individuos …
The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century
Catalina de los Santos et son navire, femme libre de couleur dans la Caraïbe hispanophone (Santo Domingo, 1593)
L’article explore l’acte notarié établi par Catalina de los Santos à Garachico (Tenerife) en 1593. Elle s’identifie comme mulâtresse, veuve, vecina de Santo Domingo sur l’île d’Española, et propriétaire du navire sur lequel elle voyage. Elle s’était rendue à Séville où elle avait fait affaire avec divers marchands et avait acheté une cédule royale (dont le nom du bénéficiaire a été laissé en blanc), lui permettant de voyager. Durant son voyage de…
Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
In Ordinary Lives, Kristen Block explores Christianity's practical functions for non-elite residents of the colonial Caribbean. By the mid-seventeenth century, she argues, cynicism and opportunism
Debates históricos contemporáneos
En los últimos años, nuevos datos históricos sobre los africanos y afrodescendientes en México y países de América Central han aparecido en las investigaciones del periodo virreinal. Ello ha dado lugar a diversos debates y formas de interpretación sobre el papel que desempeñó la población de origen africano en la construcción de las sociedades americanas. Este libro, coordinado por María Elisa Velázquez, reúne artículos de investigadores de vario…
The First Great Waves
Drawing on port entry records for 487 ships disembarking nearly 80,000 captives in Cartagena de Indias, the primary slaving port in early colonial Spanish America, this article provides a new assessment of the relative importance of major African provenance zones for the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century transatlantic slave trade. Upper Guinea and Angola furnished roughly equal shares of forced migrants to Cartagena between 1570 and 1640, with a…
Nharas and Morenas Horras
Drawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville’s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from the Cathedral of Havana, this article argues that free African and African-descended women participated in Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean to a degree that has not been fully recognized. Regularly described as vecinas (heads of household) and as spouses to Iberian men in key port cities, free women of color played active roles i…
Mediterranean Slavery, New World Transformations
Beginning in the 1570s, the Spanish Crown dispatched approximately 20 to 25 Mediterranean galleys to the Caribbean in order to protect the empire's maritime lifelines. In addition to convict rowers of widely varied origins, the galleys employed relatively small numbers of skilled oarsmen drawn from the Islamic Mediterranean, particularly North Africa and the Ottoman empire. While Spain's Caribbean galley squadrons existed for only 60 years, their…
The First Great Waves
Drawing on port entry records for 487 ships disembarking nearly 80,000 captives in Cartagena de Indias, the primary slaving port in early colonial Spanish America, this article provides a new assessment of the relative importance of major African provenance zones for the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century transatlantic slave trade. Upper Guinea and Angola furnished roughly equal shares of forced migrants to Cartagena between 1570 and 1640, with a…
Nharas and Morenas Horras
Drawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville’s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from the Cathedral of Havana, this article argues that free African and African-descended women participated in Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean to a degree that has not been fully recognized. Regularly described as vecinas (heads of household) and as spouses to Iberian men in key port cities, free women of color played active roles i…
Mediterranean Slavery, New World Transformations
Beginning in the 1570s, the Spanish Crown dispatched approximately 20 to 25 Mediterranean galleys to the Caribbean in order to protect the empire's maritime lifelines. In addition to convict rowers of widely varied origins, the galleys employed relatively small numbers of skilled oarsmen drawn from the Islamic Mediterranean, particularly North Africa and the Ottoman empire. While Spain's Caribbean galley squadrons existed for only 60 years, their…
Nharas and Morenas Horras
Drawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville’s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from the Cathedral of Havana, this article argues that free African and African-descended women participated in Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean to a degree that has not been fully recognized. Regularly described as vecinas (heads of household) and as spouses to Iberian men in key port cities, free women of color played active roles i…
Mediterranean Slavery, New World Transformations
Beginning in the 1570s, the Spanish Crown dispatched approximately 20 to 25 Mediterranean galleys to the Caribbean in order to protect the empire's maritime lifelines. In addition to convict rowers of widely varied origins, the galleys employed relatively small numbers of skilled oarsmen drawn from the Islamic Mediterranean, particularly North Africa and the Ottoman empire. While Spain's Caribbean galley squadrons existed for only 60 years, their…
Debates históricos contemporáneos
En los últimos años, nuevos datos históricos sobre los africanos y afrodescendientes en México y países de América Central han aparecido en las investigaciones del periodo virreinal. Ello ha dado lugar a diversos debates y formas de interpretación sobre el papel que desempeñó la población de origen africano en la construcción de las sociedades americanas. Este libro, coordinado por María Elisa Velázquez, reúne artículos de investigadores de vario…
The First Great Waves
Drawing on port entry records for 487 ships disembarking nearly 80,000 captives in Cartagena de Indias, the primary slaving port in early colonial Spanish America, this article provides a new assessment of the relative importance of major African provenance zones for the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century transatlantic slave trade. Upper Guinea and Angola furnished roughly equal shares of forced migrants to Cartagena between 1570 and 1640, with a…
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
In Ordinary Lives, Kristen Block explores Christianity's practical functions for non-elite residents of the colonial Caribbean. By the mid-seventeenth century, she argues, cynicism and opportunism
Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century
Catalina de los Santos et son navire, femme libre de couleur dans la Caraïbe hispanophone (Santo Domingo, 1593)
L’article explore l’acte notarié établi par Catalina de los Santos à Garachico (Tenerife) en 1593. Elle s’identifie comme mulâtresse, veuve, vecina de Santo Domingo sur l’île d’Española, et propriétaire du navire sur lequel elle voyage. Elle s’était rendue à Séville où elle avait fait affaire avec divers marchands et avait acheté une cédule royale (dont le nom du bénéficiaire a été laissé en blanc), lui permettant de voyager. Durant son voyage de…
Sometidos a esclavitud
Sometidos a esclavitud: los africanos y sus descendientes en el Caribe hispano contribuye al estudio de la historia Atlántica en la que la esclavización de millones de africanos fue uno de principales factores que generaron e impulsaron el desarrollo del mundo moderno. La formación de redes comerciales, compañías mercantiles y negocios particulares contribuyeron a conectar mundos y a hacerlos interdependientes. Junto a las mercancías, individuos …
A los cincuenta años de su fallecimiento. Una nueva generación de investigadores valora la obra del historiador Serra Ràfols (1972-2022)
One way to commemorate the legacy of an intellectual —in this case, that of the historian Elías Serra Ràfols— is to reflect on the imprint of his contribution and probe his presence today, when five decades have passed since his death. There are many ways to verify his impact as a researcher in historiography and the validity of many of his postulates, contributions, methodology, human values... We have opted, as a complement to the article by Bl…
El temprano comercio de esclavos desde Angola hacia Hispanoamérica y Brasil, 1575-1595
En este ensayo empleamos fuentes nuevas y subutilizadas para ofrecer una cronología del temprano comercio de esclavos desde Angola hacia Hispanoamérica, lo cual comenzó con dos navíos que zarparon de la Isla de Luanda justo después de la llegada del primer gobernador de la Angola portuguesa. Semejantes viajes al Caribe y al Río de la Plata eran comunes a partir de 1595, pero en la década anterior la trata de africanos esclavizados desde Angola ha…
An Atlantic Slave Trade Stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and Beyond
The study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is becoming increasingly sophisticated, diverse, and international. Challenging prevailing stereotypes about the dominance of northern European business interests, García Montón’s study shows the persistent vigor of Genoa’s merchant community in this examination of the asiento system that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century and continued into the mid-eighteenth century. Along the way, he also illumin…
The Uncertain Atlantic
As the first European colony to specialize in sugar cultivation using a labor force comprised exclusively of enslaved Africans, São Tomé island in the Gulf of Guinea is often considered the birthplace of the sugar plantation complex. But the rise of sugar cultivation there took place amidst deep uncertainties. This essay examines a previously unstudied sixteenth-century São Tomé estate inventory from the vantage points of merchants and officials …
The seventeenth-century Spanish Caribbean as global crossroads
Brasil y Maranhão en el tráfico de esclavos hacia el Caribe español, siglos XVI-XVII
A partir de diversas fuentes del Archivo de Indias y de otros repositorios, en este ensayo se reconstruyen tres itinerarios marítimos poco conocidos que demuestran el polifacético papel de Brasil en el tráfico de esclavos hacia el Caribe español hasta el final de la Unión Ibérica en 1640. Algunos barcos negreros zarparon de Luanda con destino en Brasil, pero arribaron en el Caribe. Otros, que partieron de Angola, hacían escala en Pernambuco u otr…
Luso-African Islands and Spanish Archipelagos in the Rise of the Atlantic Slave Trade, ca. 1519-1545
Drawing on sources produced in the Spanish Caribbean and Canary Islands, this article reconstructs the chronology of the earliest known slaving voyages from Arguin, São Tomé, and the Cape Verde Islands to the Americas. As a corrective to narratives characterizing the early Atlantic slave trade as an exclusively “Portuguese” enterprise driven largely by the priorities and directives of Iberian monarchs, it argues that the incipient traffic from Af…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 obras) · History (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Ancient history (7 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Cuban History and Society (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Humanities (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Geography (5 obras)