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dc.contributor.authorGarcia-Monton, Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-10T09:38:18Z
dc.date.available2021-11-10T09:38:18Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51395
dc.description.abstractChapter 6: This chapter adopts an intra-imperial, Spanish American perspective to understand how Domenico Grillo’s factors operated this new monopolistic asiento trade on the ground. It focuses on the Isthmus of Panama and Pacific South America, the most coveted trading areas for the company and where most African captives were brought. The chapter examines the unprecedented privileges wielded by the company’s factors, which triggered the fierce opposition of local players, including other slave traders, tax-farmers, and political leaders. It shows that Grillo’s factors expanded the company’s reach by challenging the privileges of the Sevillian and Lima consulados, smuggling and venturing into trading areas that exceeded the limits of the asiento charter, like Peru. Yet, these pages show in detail that Grillo’s factors could only enter these trading spheres with the cooperation of other Spanish American merchants, middlemen, and political authorities who rapidly started to benefit from the asiento trade. These processes heralded future dynamics of competition and collaboration between other asiento companies and local players. The collective and disputed construction of the asiento trade on the ground bolstered a solid commercial and relational space linking the Spanish Indies to other empires in the Atlantic world and global trade circuits.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americasen_US
dc.subject.other1650-1700, Asiento, Entrepreneurship, Genoese, Slave, Tradeen_US
dc.titleChapter 6 Implementing the Asiento and Smugglingen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Perspective from the Isthmus of Panama and Pacific South Americaen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003242215-7en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookadd369ae-ec79-4d2f-8998-b9d798897f55en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032150345en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032150369en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages35en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Universidad Pablo de Olavide/ Project acronym: ArtEmpire/Grant number: 20.08.30.22.09


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