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| Christian Slavery; -During Moorish Iberia, there was significant muslim control over much of the Iberian Peninsula or Spain. - The Moors imported white christian slaves into Muslim Spain in varying degrees from the 8th century until the Reconquista in the late 16th century. |
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| African Slavery; -In 1442 Pop Eugene IV gave Portuguese the right to explore Africa. - The Spanish government then created the Asiento System, which functioned between the years of 1543 and 1834. -The Asiento allowed other countries to sell people into slavery to the spanish. -By the 16th century the population was mostly composed of the individuals of African descent. |
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| -In 1493 Pop Alexander VI divided the world between Spain and Portugal. -A line was drawn on the map down through the Atlantic Ocean. -Portugal was allowed to stop the 2 Europeans countries from competing over parts of the world that they wanted to explore and trade with. -The Asiento was often sold to foreign countries rather than spanish. |
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The number of enslaved africans needed rose as the new colonies developed.
-In 1676 a group of merchants in Seville in Spain bought the Asiento or license. |
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-The merchants who bought the Asiento were unable to supply the slaves required.
- They found that they could not supply the number of slaves agreed and withdrew early from the contract.
-The Cadiz Slave Company bid for the asiento in 1767. |
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-They agreed to supply 8,000 slaves per year to the Spanish plantations. They also afound that they could not buy enough slaves each year to fulfill the contract.
-In 1713, war between Britain and Spain was ended. Britain took over the asiento. |
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-The contract was to supply 4,800 slaves each year for 30 years. They also had to pay the kind of Spain 331/2 pesos for each slave supplied, plus an adnace of 200,00 pesos.
- The Company was made up of nothing but London merchants. |
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-Bristol merchants felt excluded by the South Sea Company's contract to supply slaves to Spanish-owned colonies in America.
-The demand for slaves in Spanish-owned South America helped to set the level of Bristol's slave sales in the 1730's and early 1740's. |
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| Christopher Colombus believed that indians served as a slave labor force for europeans. By the beginning of the Sixteenth Century Spains experiment in enslaving the Indians was failing. |
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| Both of Spain and England participated in the slave trade of Native Americans and Africans to supply their colonial labor forces. Florida's governors and its religous leaders allowed the Hispanic colonist to force Indians to work for little or no wages. |
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1441
- 1441: Start of European slave trading in Africa. The Portuguese captains Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão capture 12 Africans in Cabo Branco (modern Mauritania) and take them to Portugal as slaves.
1444
- 1444: Lançarote de Freitas, a tax-collector from the Portuguese town of Lagos, forms a company to trade with Africa.
- 8 August 1444: de Freitas lands 235 kidnapped and enslaved Africans in Lagos, the first large group of African slaves brought to Europe.
1452
- 1452: Start of the 'sugar-slave complex'. Sugar is first planted in the Portuguese island of Madeira and, for the first time, African slaves are put to work on the sugar plantations.
- 18 June 1452: Pope Nicholas V issues Dum Diversas, a bull authorising the Portuguese to reduce any non-Christians to the status of slaves.
1454
- 8 January 1454: Pope Nicholas V issues Romanus Pontifex, a bull granting the Portuguese a perpetual monopoly in trade with Africa. Nevertheless, Spanish traders begin to bring slaves from Africa to Spain.
1461
- 1461: The first of the Portuguese trading forts, the castle at Arguin (modern Mauritania), is completed.
1462
- 1462: The Portuguese colony on the Cape Verde Islands is founded, an important way-station in the slave trade.
- 1462: Portuguese slave traders start to operate in Seville (Spain)
1470
1470: Despite Papal opposition, Spanish merchants begin to trade in large numbers of slaves in the 1470s |
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