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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

by David Wheat

This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zo

Publisher

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9781469647654