The Kingdom of Angola is not Very Far from Here’

The South Atlantic Slave Port of Buenos Aires, 1585–1640

Bibliographic Data

ID9323694
AuthorsKara D Schultz (0000-0002-1649-8136, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume36
Issue3
Pages424-444
Publication date2015-07-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSlavery and Abolition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523
PublisherFrank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/0144039x.2015.1067397
OpenAlexW1718338430
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This article draws upon sources from Spain's Archive of the Indies and elsewhere to survey the early seventeenth-century slave trade to Buenos Aires, exploring the diversity of ways in which slaves were transported to Buenos Aires, strategies of contraband traders, and the city's rich economic and social links to port cities in Brazil and Angola. Taken together, these diverse sources reveal how Buenos Aires was a key port of the South Atlantic. This article also suggests some revisions of the major characteristics of the early slave trade to Spanish and Portuguese America – notably, the significant presence of children among the enslaved

Ancient history · Atlantic slave trade · Atlantic World · Diversity (politics · Economic history · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Kingdom · Political science · Port (circuit theory · Portuguese · West indies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Law

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