asiento de negros contract

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asiento international trade agreement slave trade contract

The asiento de negros contract was a major early 18th-century agreement granting Britain the exclusive right to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, significantly expanding British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

Aliases (1)

asiento de negros ×1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	asiento → international trade agreement → slave trade contract →
appliesToTerritory	Spanish America → Spanish colonies in the Americas →
beneficiary	British slave-trading interests → Spanish Crown revenues →
confersRight	exclusive right to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America →
economicImpact	expansion of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade → growth of British slave-trading profits → integration of British merchants into Spanish colonial markets →
fieldOfStudy	Atlantic history → British imperial history → colonial Latin American history → history of slavery →
followedBy	continued British slave trading through other arrangements →
grantedBy	Spanish Crown →
grantedTo	British South Sea Company → Kingdom of Great Britain →
hasAlternativeName	Asiento granted to Britain → British Asiento → asiento contract → asiento de negros →
historicalPeriod	early 18th century →
involves	sale of enslaved Africans in Spanish colonial ports → transport of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas →
languageOfName	Spanish →
legalForm	monopoly contract →
mainSubject	Atlantic world commerce → enslavement of Africans → transatlantic slave trade →
moralCharacterization	instrument of racial slavery → mechanism of human trafficking →
partOf	system of Spanish imperial asientos →
politicalImpact	source of diplomatic tension between Britain and Spain → strengthening of British influence in Atlantic trade →
precededBy	earlier asientos granted to Portuguese and other traders →
regulated	numbers of enslaved Africans to be delivered → ports of delivery in Spanish America → taxes and duties on slave cargoes →
relatedEvent	War of the Spanish Succession →
relatedTreaty	Treaty of Utrecht →
signatory	Great Britain → Spain →
victim	African societies affected by slave raids and trade → enslaved Africans →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
asiento de negros contract ("asiento de negros") →	hasAlternativeName
Treaty of Utrecht →	subjectOf