Asiento de Negros

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asiento monopoly contract slave trade contract

Asiento de Negros was a Spanish Crown-granted monopoly contract that allowed designated traders, notably the British South Sea Company, to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America, becoming a major source of international tension in the 18th century.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America)	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	asiento ⓘ monopoly contract ⓘ slave trade contract ⓘ
appliesTo	Spanish America NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithConflict	War of Jenkins' Ear NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithTreaty	Treaty of Utrecht NERFINISHED ⓘ
beneficiary	British merchants ⓘ Spanish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ
causeOf	international tension in the 18th century ⓘ
country	Spanish Empire ⓘ
economicSector	Atlantic slave trade NERFINISHED ⓘ
geographicScope	Caribbean NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish American colonies NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish mainland America NERFINISHED ⓘ
grantedBy	Spanish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalLegacy	source of enduring Anglo-Spanish historical controversy ⓘ symbol of colonial exploitation ⓘ
historicalPeriod	early modern period ⓘ
impact	expansion of African diaspora in the Americas ⓘ growth of British involvement in the slave trade ⓘ strengthening of Spanish colonial labor systems ⓘ
languageOfName	Spanish ⓘ
legalForm	royal contract ⓘ
legalStatus	Crown-granted monopoly ⓘ
mainCommodity	enslaved Africans ⓘ
mainPurpose	supply of enslaved Africans to Spanish America ⓘ
moralCharacterization	crime against humanity ⓘ
notableContractor	British South Sea Company NERFINISHED ⓘ South Sea Company NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableContractorCountry	Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	transatlantic slave trade ⓘ
perpetratedHarmOn	African societies ⓘ Afro-descendant populations in the Americas ⓘ enslaved Africans ⓘ
regulates	number of enslaved Africans to be imported ⓘ taxes and duties on slave imports ⓘ
relatedTo	European mercantilism ⓘ Spanish colonial system ⓘ imperial rivalry between Britain and Spain ⓘ
significantCentury	17th century ⓘ 18th century ⓘ
typeOfExploitation	chattel slavery ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Battle of Jenkins' Ear (incident) → relatedTo → Asiento de Negros ⓘ

Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) → relatedTo → Asiento de Negros ⓘ

British South Sea Company → heldMonopolyOn → Asiento de Negros ⓘ

this entity surface form: asiento de negros (slave trade contract with Spanish America)