From Capture to Sale

The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15679-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 857 g

Reihe: The Atlantic World

From Capture to Sale illuminates the experience of African slaves transported to Spanish America by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. It draws on exceptionally rich accounts of one of the most prominent slave traders, Manuel Bautista Pérez. These papers cover the whole journey of the slaves from Africa, through Colombia and Panama to their final sale in Peru. The prime focus of the study is on the diet, health and medical care of the slaves. It will not only be of interest to scholars of the slave trade, but also to those interested in the impact of the Columbian Exchange on diets, medicine and medical practice in the early modern period. The book is well illustrated and contains over thirty tables and seven appendices.

From Capture to Sale has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2007).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newson, Linda

Minchin, Susie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
Chapter One: A Bureaucratic Business
Chapter Two: The Acquisition of Slaves
Chapter Three: Time on the Coast
Chapter Four: The Middle Passage
Chapter Five: In the Barracoons of Cartagena
Chapter Six: The Final Passage
Chapter Seven: Slave Doctors, Surgeons and Healers
Chapter Eight: Medicines and Mortality
Conclusion

Appendices
Appendix A: Textiles Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613 to 1618.
Appendix B: Beads Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613 to1618.
Appendix C: Other Commodities Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613-1618.
Appendix D: Nutritional Composition of Selected West African Staples.
Appendix E: Lists of Daños Calculated on Slaves Purchased in Cartagena 1633.
Appendix F: Business Associates of Manuel Bautista Pérez.
Appendix G: Select Genealogy of the Pérez-Duarte Families.
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Linda A. Newson, Ph.D. (1971) in Geography, University College London, is Professor of Geography at King’s College London. She has published four books and many articles on different aspects of demographic change in colonial Spanish America. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Susie Minchin, Ph.D. (1998) in History, University of Cambridge, is an Honorary Research Fellow at King’s College London.