Abstract

NAVARRETE PELAEZ, María Cristina. On malas entradas and Strategies of buen pasaje: the Illegal Slave Trade in the Caribbean Region of New Granada, 1550-1690. hist.crit. [online]. 2007, n.34, pp.160-183. ISSN 0121-1617.

Contraband was an important component of the system of economic monopolies that Spain maintained with the Indies during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this illegal trade, the traffic of human beings followed the same pattern as that of merchandise. The illegal slave trade in the Caribbean region of New Granada had two main characteristics. First, the illegal trade of captives carried out by pirates, corsairs and foreigners. Second, the fiscal fraud conducted by Portugese merchants who brought more slaves than permitted by their contracts. This type of illegal trade benefited from the complacency of provincial authorities and royal officials who profited enormously from the bribes.

Keywords : Contraband; slavery; illegal trade; fiscal fraud; trata negrera; traffic in slaves; monopolies; Caribbean region of New Granada; sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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