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New Book ”From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas”
From the Galleons to the Highlands: Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas [University of New Mexico Press (Diálogos Series) 2020] edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat, explores transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America.
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University of New Mexico Press): The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies’ previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade. Spanish America received African captives not only directly via the transatlantic slave trade but also from slave markets in the Portuguese, English, Dutch, French, and Danish Americas, ultimately absorbing more enslaved Africans than any other imperial jurisdict