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Although the forced emigration of Africans to the Americas may be considered an accident or an unusual scheme which had to be introduced for the development of new societies, it is certain that the slave trade arising out of this emigration was in no way haphazard. It had in fact been practised for centuries, but now it started to grow in a spectacular way. A few years after the first Spanish settlements in the West Indies were founded, the slave trade expanded in proportion to the amount of land being incorporated under the Crown of Castile and to the resulting decimation of the indigenous population.
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Ernst van den Boogaart and Pieter C. Emmer, ‘The Dutch participation in the Atlantic slave trade, 1596–1650’ in Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn (eds), The uncommon market. Essays in the economic history of the Atlantic slave trade. (New York, San Francisco and London, 1979), pp. 354–7, 371–5; W.S. Linger, ‘Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse slavenhandel’, Economisch-Historisch Jaarboek, 26 (1952–4), p. 136.
Francis J. Brooks, ‘Revising the conquest of Mexico: smallpox, sources, and populations’, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXIV/1 (1993), pp. 18–19.
The document was written by a captain from Seville, Fernando Silva Solis, who claimed to have a slaving concession in the years immediately following the Portuguese rebellion of 1640. Although only the parts which pertain to the Caribbean are quoted here, the document refers to all of America, and can be found in AGI Indiferente General 2796. It has been published fully in Enriqueta Vila Vilar, ‘La sublevacion de Portugal y la trata de esclavos’, Ibero-Amerikaniscbes Archiv, 2/3, (1976), pp. 175–7.
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Vilar, E.V., Klooster, W. (2003). Forced African settlement. The basis of forced settlement: Africa and its trading conditions. In: Emmer, P.C., Damas, G.C. (eds) General History of the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73767-3_7
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