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Accounts of Slavery: Money and Mobility among Enslaved People in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Zoom PrincetonThe transpacific galleon trade enriched Mexican merchants, who relied on enslaved and free dependents to manage merchandise and cash. Hundreds of pesos routinely moved in the pockets of enslaved people as they traversed baroque Mexico City. This talk examines lawsuits among merchants to extract fragmentary data on enslaved people trafficked through Asia to Mexico and […]
