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The Slave Trade

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by Hugh Thomas


  African contract workers in, 745

  Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1807 and, 573–74

  Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1817 and, 608–9

  Angola as commercial dependency of, 219–20

  bagaceira society of, 137–38, 163

  British abolition and slave trade of, 565–67, 741–43

  British blockade proposal and, 735–36, 738

  British merchants and slave trade in, 676–77

  British search-and-burn policy and, 741–43

  British Slave Trade Bill of 1842 and, 729–30

  British treaties with, 609–11

  coffee trade of, 629–30, 632, 634

  Cuba contrasted with, 567–68

  Dahomey slave trade with, 358–59

  direct African slave trade and, 221, 298, 301, 303, 315, 328

  discovery of, 105

  Dutch and, 159–60, 162, 163, 164, 169–71, 183, 185–86, 187, 531–32

  early African slaves in, 106

  European settlers in, 170–71

  final days of slavery in, 786, 788–89

  France and, 106, 154

  gold rush in, 220–21

  Great Britain and nationalism of, 664–65

  illegal slave trade in, 630–36, 744–45

  independence of, 608–9

  indigenous Indians as slaves in, 133–34, 163, 170, 220–21, 277–78

  intra-Brazilian slave trade of, 744–45

  last known attempt to land slaves in, 745

  Malé’s revolt in, 635

  19th-century slave trade as seen by, 730–33

  number of slaves in, 185, 219, 542, 567, 635, 787–88

  oligarchy of slave traders in, 631–33

  16th-century black population of, 133

  Portugal and, 105–6

  slave revolts in, 611, 635

  slavery abolished in, 743–44

  slaves’ arrival in, 432–34, 723–25

  slaves in return to Africa from, 801

  sugar industry in, 105, 123–24, 135–38, 141, 159, 170, 187, 220, 278, 609, 630

  U.S. naval patrols and, 727–28

  U.S. slave trade with, 739–40

  Brazilian Antislavery Society, 788

  Brazilian Association of Liverpool, 571

  Brazilian (Slave Trade) Bill of 1842, 729–30

  Brazza, Pierre de, 789

  Bredero, Gerbrand, 162, 452, 793–94

  Bretoa, 105

  Breves, 640

  Brew, Richard, 329, 331, 351, 374

  Brewster, Harriet, 781

  Brewton, Miles, 268

  Brian, Captain, 588

  Brickdale, Matthew, 508

  Brickell, John, 258

  Briggs, Nathaniel, 503

  Bright, John, 733

  Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre, 496, 520, 524

  British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 657, 734, 773–74

  Britto, John de Costa, 429

  Broadhead, Captain, 676, 695, 722

  Broglie, Duke of, 623–24, 625, 626, 627

  Brohuac, Captain, 579

  Brooke, Captain, 615

  Brookes, 13, 283, 415, 417, 419, 421–22, 438, 510

  slave stowage diagram of, 510, 520–21

  Brookes, James, 510

  Brookhouse, Robert, 681

  Brothers, 495

  Brougham, Henry, Lord, 506, 557, 574–75, 582, 599, 658

  Brown, James, 261

  Brown, John (abolitionist), 731

  Brown, John (slave trader), 14, 293–94, 297, 300, 303, 488, 520, 537, 544–545

  Brown, Moses, 303, 487, 532, 797

  Brown, Nicholas, 293, 325n

  Brown, Obadiah, 261, 295, 569

  Brown, William, 419

  Browne, James, 215

  Bruce, Commodore, 739

  Bruce, Henry, 675

  Brüe, André, 194–95, 472

  Bruges, Jacome de, 53

  Brunaud (slave trader), 547

  Bruselas, Gerónimo de, 91

  Bryan, Samuel, 501

  Buatu, King of the Vili, 702

  Bubb, George, 237

  Buchanan, James, 732, 734, 764, 772

  Buckeridge, Nicholas, 350

  Buckingham, George Villiers, second duke of, 198

  Buenos Aires, 435, 567, 577

  Bug-Jargal (Hugo), 624

  Bullen, Commodore, 651

  Bulloch, James, 757

  Bulwer, Henry, 749, 751

  Bunch, Robert, 779

  Buonaguisi, Francesco, 75

  Burckhardt, Christoph, 301

  Burgess, Thomas, 510

  Burke, Aedanus, 518

  Burke, Edmund, 13, 249, 345, 472, 481–82, 483, 498, 506, 514, 517, 525, 529, 782

  Burling, William, 460

  Burón, José Antonio, 736

  Burón, Juan Tomás, 670

  Burrell, Peter, 267

  Burridge, Robert, 300

  Burton, Sir Richard, 325, 746, 777

  Busbecq, Ogier-Ghislaine de, 113, 794

  Butcher, Thomas, 400

  Butler, Benjamin F., 661

  Butterfly, 661

  Buxton, Charles, 777

  Buxton, Edward Noël, 734, 764

  Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, 650, 658, 733, 777, 786

  Byng, John, 474

  Byrd, William, 461–62

  Caballero, Diego, 118, 299

  Caballero y Góngora, Archbishop, 450

  Cabarrus, Dominique, 524n, 547

  Cabess, John, 395

  Cabeza de Vaca, Alvár Núñez, 96

  Cabot, Sebastian, 96, 105

  Cabot family, 271

  Cabral, Pedro Alvares, 10–11, 86, 105, 314

  Cacheu Company, 218, 219, 227, 292, 458

  Cacheu River, 340, 681–82

  Ca’da Mosto, Alvise, 22, 47, 53, 56, 57, 58, 60–61, 68, 324, 332, 337, 371, 373

  Cadereyta, Marquis of, 178

  Cadillac, Jean-François, 411

  Cádiz, Rodrigo Ponce de León, Marquis of, 84

  Cádiz Slave Company, 280, 327, 330, 396

  Caesar, Julius, 26

  Cagigal, Juan Manuel, 602

  Caillé, René, 563

  Cairu, Barão de, 732

  Calabar massacre, 405, 495–96

  Calabar River, 362–64, 697–99

  Caldeira, Antonio, 112

  Caldeira, Manuel, 117, 128, 141, 168

  Caldeira Brant, Filisberto (later marquis of Barbacena), 609, 611, 636

  Calderón, Juan Rodrigo, 211n

  Calderón de la Barca, Fanny, 643

  Calhoun, John, 769–70

  Calixtus III, Pope, 65, 66–67, 72, 89

  Callister, Anthony, 442

  Callister, Henry, 442

  Calvert, Charles, 208

  Câmara, Leopoldo da, 740

  Camargo, 745

  Cambini, Niccolò di Francesco, 84

  Cameroons, 145, 247, 364, 653, 699

  Caminha, Alvaro de, 80

  Campaña, Alonso de, 118

  Campaña, Pedro de, 118

  Campbell, Benjamin, 683

  Campbell, Captain, 569

  Campbell, George, 297

  Campbell, James, 629, 667

  Campbell, Neil, 682

  Campo, Francisco, 723

  Canada, 173, 191, 194, 235, 272, 274, 286, 482, 776

  Canary Islands, 41, 50, 74, 76–77, 84, 87, 91, 94, 106, 112, 116, 121, 155, 158, 332

  Cañedo, Valentín, 646–47, 747, 755–36

  Canning, George, 13, 507n, 538, 540, 550n, 554, 577, 591, 596, 607, 609, 611, 612, 618, 636, 655, 656

  Canning, Stratford (later first viscount Stratford de Redcliffe), 618

  Canot, Theodore, 678, 684, 687, 690, 706, 717, 724–25

  Cánovas, Antonio de, 113, 782–83

  Cão, Diogo, 75–76, 81, 82

  Cape Coast, 349–52, 576, 691, 692, 693

  Cape Verde Islands, 58, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76, 87, 101, 102, 110, 111, 115, 116, 117, 139, 158, 163, 199, 210, 219, 225, 229, 253, 281, 292, 3
03, 313, 319, 336–37, 340, 680, 727

  Capitalism and Slavery (Williams), 9

  Cap Lahou, 690–91

  Capo d’Istria, Count, 592–93

  Caracas Company, 503

  Caramança (King Ansa), 78, 347

  Carçau, Jan, 217

  Cárdenas de Montehermoso, Marquis, 601

  Cardozo dos Santos, João, 633

  Cardwell, Edward (later first viscount Cardwell), 725

  Caribbean area, 12, 13, 123, 133, 180, 185, 212, 401, 450

  Danish colonies in, 210, 255–56

  Dutch in, 160, 170, 183, 186

  English colonies in, 174, 210

  French colonies in, 173, 191–92, 210

  national monopoly companies and, 188–89

  pre-European slavery in, 104–5

  as source of slaves for North America, 206–7

  sugar industry of, 91, 97, 99–100, 135–36, 187–88

  see also specific colonies and islands

  Carloff, Henrick, 176, 191–92, 198, 222–24, 349, 355

  Carneiro, Antonio, 107–8

  Carlota, 569, 633

  Caroline, 617, 686

  Carr, Sir Raymond, 641

  Carreiro, Estevão, 424

  Carstensen, Edward, 693

  Cartagena de Indias, 434–35, 458, 504

  Carteret, Sir George, 201

  Casa Calvo, Marquis of, 548

  Casa da Guiné, 64, 291, 432

  Casa de Contración, 92, 94, 101, 121, 144, 163, 211, 246

  Casa dos Escravos, 432

  Casa Irujo, Marquis of, 604

  Casa Montalvo, Ignacio, Count of, 533

  Case, George, 489n, 565

  Case of Our Fellow Creatures, the Oppressed Africans, The (Benezet), 491

  Cass, Lewis, 663, 664, 764, 768–69

  Cassano, Luca, 59

  Casseres, Henrik, 223

  Casseres, Simon de, 223

  Castañas, General, 600

  Castelar, Emilio, 778, 781, 787

  Castellanos, Juan de, 104

  Castellón, Jacome de, 100

  Castellón, Tomás de, 100

  Castillo, Santiago, 218

  Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Lord, 576–77, 583, 584, 585–86, 593, 595, 596, 599, 612, 613, 685

  as statesman, 591–92

  “castle slaves,” 562

  Castro, Fray Juan (Fernández) de, 99, 212, 213

  Castro Alves, Antonio de, 633

  Cataño, Germino, 119

  Cataño, Leonardo, 101

  Catarina, Senhora, 338–39

  Catherine, 261, 295

  Catherine of Braganza, Queen, 199

  Catholic church, 12, 64–66, 71–72, 124–26, 146–47, 199, 216–17, 637, 785

  abolition movement and, 451, 456–58, 466, 665–66

  and baptism of slaves, 397–99

  bull of Gregory XVI and, 665–66

  see also Christianity Caulker, Canray ba, 687

  Caulker family, 344, 687

  Cause des esclaves nègres, La (Frossard), 496

  Caussé, Clément, 304

  Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies, A (Benezet), 472

  Cavalcanti family, 635

  Cave, Stephen, 773

  Centurione, Gaspar, 99

  Centurione, Luis, 70

  Céron, 719

  Cerqueira Lima, José de, 632–33

  Chace, Samuel, 520

  Chaînes de l’esclavage, Les (Marat), 466

  Chamberlayne, Edward, 473–74

  Chambert, Louis, 229

  Chamfort, Sébastien, 266

  Champlin, Christopher, 308

  Champlin, George, 308, 615

  Champlin, Robert, 308

  Chancellor, William, 302, 310, 311

  Chandos, James Brydges, first duke of, 238n, 239, 243–44, 301

  Chandos, James Brydges, third duke of, 509, 514

  Chaplin, Charles, 206

  Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (Shaftesbury), 470n

  “Charity” (Cowper), 488

  Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, 34

  Charles, Archduke (later Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor), 230

  Charles Edward Stuart “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” 10, 252, 266, 267

  Charles I, King of England, 176, 197, 198

  Charles II, King of England, 197n, 198, 241, 338

  Charles II, King of Spain, 216

  Charles III, King of Spain, 505–6

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 14, 97, 98, 100, 105, 114, 125, 126, 141, 792

  Charleston, S.C., 268–70, 369, 437, 441, 502, 545–46

  arrival of slaves in, 438–40

  Charlotte Sophia, Queen of England, 489

  Charming Betty, 260

  Chateaubriand, François René, 14, 253, 276, 308, 595, 605, 625

  Chateaubriand, René-Auguste de (father of the preceding), 253–54, 276, 306, 308, 431, 596

  Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, fourth earl of, 250

  Chew (collector of customs), 614

  Chief Black Eunuch Conducts the Young Prince to the Circumcision Ceremony, The (Levnî), 791

  Chile, 103, 167, 267, 435, 503, 566, 567

  abolition movement in, 577–78, 598

  Choiseul, Etienne-François de, first duke of, 274

  Chourra, Jean, 229

  Christian IV, King of Denmark, 172

  Christian VII, King of Denmark, 526

  Christianity, 11–12, 23, 26, 29–31, 34, 35, 146–47, 336, 397–98, 505

  Congo monarchy and, 82

  denominations of, and slave trade, 298–99

  in Ethiopia, 51

  and fall of Constantinople, 66–67

  Islam vs., 36–39, 65–67

  slave trade and, 65–66

  see also Catholic church

  Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (Zurara), 21–24

  Cicero, 26, 29

  Cicerón, 780–81

  Cienfuegos, José, 601, 602

  Cinque (slave), 718

  Civil War, U.S., 597, 765, 769, 776, 778, 780

  Claiborne, William, 549, 570

  Clancarty, Richard le Poer Trench, first viscount, 612

  Clapp, Joshua, 729

  Clara, 661

  Clarence, Duke of (later William IV), 13, 530, 536, 540–41, 546, 550, 555, 556, 786

  Claret, Antonio, 756

  Clarke, Gedney, 269

  Clarke, Peleg, 295, 300, 427, 520

  Clarkson, John, 498

  Clarkson, Thomas, 13, 307, 415, 486, 492–96, 497, 498, 507, 509, 510, 512–13, 520–21, 524, 526, 530, 539, 550, 553, 585, 735, 776, 797

  Claver, Pedro (later Saint Pedro Claver), 434–35

  Clavière (abolitionist), 520, 524

  Claxton, Ecroyde, 412

  Clay, Henry, 617

  Claypole, James, 298

  Clayton, 428–29

  Clegg, J. A., 562

  Cleland, Colonel, 238

  Clement XI, Pope, 458

  Clenard (tutor), 113, 117, 119

  Clermont-Tonnerre, Marquis of, 626

  Cleveland, James, 343

  Cleveland, Stephen, 534

  Cliffe, José, 712, 713, 716, 717, 724–25, 737

  Clinch, William, 244

  Clinton, Lord, 156

  Clobery, William, 176

  Clodoré, Jean, 192

  Clotilde, 770

  Clovis II, King of Neustria, 35

  Club de la Habana, 753

  Cobb, Howell, 776

  Cobden, Richard, 667, 733–34, 737, 798

  Cobos, Francisco de los, 98, 100

  Cochrane, Thomas Lord, 765

  Cocking, Francis Ross, 748, 749

  Cocks, John Somers, 506–7

  Code Blanc, 484

  Code Noir, French, 474, 484, 505–6

  Code of Hammurabi, 25

  Code of Laws, Justinian, 471

  Code of Theodosius, 31

  Código Carolino, 505

  Código Negro Español, 505–6
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  Codrington, Christopher, 400, 401

  Coelho Pereira, Duarte, 123, 124

  coffee trade, 487, 532, 571, 599, 745, 751

  Brazilian, 629–30, 632, 634

  Cuban, 636–37

  Coggeshall, George, 652, 679

  Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 189, 191, 192, 193, 228, 277, 292, 679

  Colbert, Jean-François, marquis of Seignelay (son of the preceding), 193

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 155

  Colet, Henry, 543

  Colleton, John, 201

  Colley, Captain, 311

  Collier, Francis, 652, 694

  Collier, Sir George, 594, 604, 617, 622, 715–16

  Collingwood, Luke, 489, 515

  Collins, Charles, 545, 551, 603

  Collins, Henry, 260–61

  Colombia, 104, 116, 144, 157, 210, 211, 504, 577, 598

  see also New Granada

  Colón, Diego, 91–92, 93

  Colón, José, 773

  Colonna, Egidio, 24

  Columbine, E. H., 575

  Columbus, Christopher, 52, 54, 75, 82, 84, 90, 91, 93, 94, 120

  voyages of, 87–89

  Comas, Francisco Antonio de, 543, 579

  Commentaria (Ledesma), 127

  Commentaries on the Laws of England (Blackstone), 471

  Commercio del Rio, 574

  Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 493, 497, 509, 521

  Compagnie de Guyanne, 361

  Compagnie de Saint-Christophe, 173

  Compagnie des Indes, 335, 436

  Compañiá Gaditana, 396

  Company of Adventurers, 174, 354

  Company of Africa, 242

  Company of Grão Pará and Maranhão, 340

  Company of Merchants Trading to Africa, 226, 266, 295, 321, 339, 350, 378, 564

  Company of Saint-Domingue, 243

  Company of the Coast of Africa, 277

  Company of the Isles of America, 173, 191

  Company of the Philippines, 503

  Company of the West, see Mississippi Company

  Company of the Western Islands, 191

  Comte d’Hérouville, 411

  Conceiçao, 715

  Concha, José de la, 754, 759, 778, 782

  Conchillos, Lope, 94, 166

  Condorcet, Marquis of, 496, 520, 521, 524

  Congo, 13, 81–82, 108, 109–11, 134, 145, 160, 168, 183–84, 185, 221, 313, 323, 366, 399, 400, 563, 789, 795

  decline of, 219–20, 227

  Jagga invasion of, 128–30

  Ndongo’s rivalry with, 131

  in 19th century, 703–4

  Portugal’s relationship with, 128–30, 219–20

  Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 451, 458

  Congress, U.S., 500, 568, 569, 616, 618, 649, 660, 729, 753

  anti-slavery legislation of, 544–45, 546

  foreign slavery condemned by, 518–19

  slavery debate in, 518–19, 551–555

  Congress of Verona, 712

  Congress of Vienna, 583, 584, 587, 591, 595, 598

  Connecticut, 177, 206–7, 260, 286, 452, 772

 

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