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The Slave Trade

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by Hugh Thomas


  Considérations sur le commerce de Bretagne (Pinczon du Sel), 266

  Constant, Benjamin, 587, 588n, 622, 623n, 797

  Constantine I (the Great), Emperor of Rome, 31, 396

  Constantinople, fall of, 65–67

  Constituent Assembly, French, 521–22

  Constitution, U.S., 499–501, 518, 546, 548, 613–14

  13th amendment of, 776

  “three-fifths clause” of, 501, 522

  Constitutionnel, Le, 664

  Conte, Jacques, 296, 547

  Continental Congress, U.S., 479–80, 486

  Continental Monthly, 771–72

  Contreras, Rodrigo, 105

  Cooney, William, 408

  Cooper, David, 482

  Cooper, W. S., 720

  Coppinger, Cornelius, 301

  Corbière, Edouard, 311, 643, 675

  Cordier, Captain, 351–52

  Córdoba, Juan de, 90

  Córdoba, Martín Alfonso de, 71

  Corker, Thomas, 344

  Cornelissøn, Christian, 350

  Cornut, Pierre, 293

  Cornwallis, Couba, 530

  Coronado, Francisco de, 103, 174

  Corrantee, John, 467

  Correa de Sá, Salvador, 184–85

  Correa de Sousa, João, 166, 168, 423

  Correia, Mãe Aurélia, 682

  Correio Mercantil, 740

  Corrie, William, 766–67

  Cortayre, Antonio de, 242

  Cortés, Hernan, 79, 90, 93, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 116–17, 118, 119, 153, 212, 300, 332

  Corzo, Juan Antonio, 118, 293

  Costa, Gaspar da, 219

  Costa Lima Viana, José da, 760n

  Costa Ramos, Tomás da, 739

  Côte d’Or, 405

  Coton, Jean, 296

  cotton trade, 249, 252–53, 286, 346, 449, 516, 541, 619, 792

  of U.S., 571–72, 597, 629

  Coulange, Antonio Francisco de, 239

  Council of Ministers, Brazilian, 742

  Council of New Netherlands, 186

  Council of New York, 203–4

  Council of Nineteen (Hereen XIX), 161, 183

  Council of the Indies, 102, 139, 140, 163, 164, 212, 215, 216–17, 229, 236, 276, 456, 544, 578, 589, 599, 607, 750

  Council of Trade and Plantations, 239

  Courbe, Sieur de la, 798

  Cour de Cassation, 626

  Courier (New Orleans), 765

  Courland, Duke of, 223–25, 292, 339

  Courtauld, Samuel, 525–26, 531

  Courtenay, John, 525

  Coutinho, Governor, 368

  Couturier, Isaac, 253, 306

  Covarrubias, Fernando de, 76

  Covarrubias, Juan de, 76

  Covides, Pedro de, 75

  Covilhã, Pero da, 86

  Coward, William, 454

  Cowper, William, 488, 497

  cowrie shells, as currency, 11, 324–25, 354, 789, 795–96

  Cox, Lieutenant, 664

  Coymans, Baltasar, 213, 215–16, 217, 218, 269, 297, 301, 304

  Coymans, Jan, 213–14, 215, 218

  Craddocke, Richard, 236

  Craggs, James, 239

  Craigie, Captain, 699

  Crampton, John, 755, 762

  Crassous, Captain, 309

  Craven, William, earl of, 198, 201

  Craven, T. A., 772

  Crawford, Joseph, 773, 778, 780

  Crawford, William, 552, 725–26

  Creevey, Captain Thomas, 265

  Creevey, William, 265

  Cresques, Abraham, 51

  Crisp, Sir Nicholas, 175–77, 197

  Crofton, S. S. L., 720–21

  Crofts, Lord, 198

  Croix, Marquesa de, 280

  crossing, see Atlantic crossing

  Crow, Captain Hugh, 308, 313, 556, 565

  Crowninshield, George, 534

  Crowninshield family, 271

  Crozat, Antoine, 242, 274, 623

  Cruger, Henry, 297, 300, 482, 515

  Cruikshank, Judge, 696

  Cruz, Francisco de la, 147

  Cuba, 12, 14, 92, 100, 101, 102, 104, 116, 160, 217, 244, 274, 280, 303, 354, 368, 437, 438, 503, 504, 505, 519, 552, 570, 580, 581, 589–90, 593, 596, 597, 620, 626, 629, 636, 638, 639, 670, 714, 720, 724, 747

  abolition debate in, 549, 580–81, 600–602

  Anglo-Spanish relations and, 753–55

  Anglo-Spanish Treaty of 1818 and, 600–602

  Anglo-Spanish Treaty of 1835 and, 655–56, 750–51

  black culture of, 95

  Brazil contrasted with, 567–68

  British abolition and, 579, 581–82, 602, 664–66, 668

  British investors and, 648–49, 676–77

  British occupation of, 272–73

  British slave trade and, 525–26

  Chinese labor in, 646, 648, 759–60, 779

  coffee trade and, 636–37

  direct slave trade of, 267, 533–35, 543–44, 578

  emancipados of, 599, 606–7, 608, 640, 641–42, 645, 655–56, 667–68, 701, 745, 749–50, 754, 756, 759, 784, 787

  Escalera Conspiracy in, 748

  European immigrants in, 603, 640–41, 759

  fear of rebellions in, 638–39, 749–50

  final days of slavery in, 786, 788–89

  free blacks of, 636–37

  “golden age” of, 642–44

  illegal slave trade and, 605–6, 638, 640–41, 644–48

  last landing of slaves in, 783–84

  19th-century revival of slave trade in, 751–52

  oligarchy of slave traders in, 542, 578, 637–38

  Ostend Manifesto and, 758

  Portuguese slave merchants and, 760–61

  proposed British blockade of, 763–64, 777–78

  proposed U.S. annexation of, 752–53, 755, 757–58, 759, 768–69

  proposed U.S. purchase of, 757–58, 773–74

  slave rebellions in, 667, 747, 748–49

  sugar industry of, 9–10, 135, 266, 273, 281, 532, 568, 600–601, 636, 637, 650, 755

  Ten Years’ War in, 787

  U.S. slave market and, 642–43

  U.S. slave trade and, 534–35, 542–43, 545, 571, 572, 649, 762–63

  white labor in, 641, 644

  Yucate laborers in, 760, 779

  Cuesta y Manzanal, Santiago de la, 542, 578, 579, 601, 638, 643

  Cultura e Opulencia do Brasil por Suas Drogas e Minas (Antonil), 463

  Cumming, Thomas, 266

  Cuneo, Michele, 89

  Cunha, José Joaquim de, 566

  Cunha, William Manuel Basilio da, 760n

  Cunha Matos, Raimundo da, 610

  Cunha Reis, Manoel Basilio da, 706, 760

  Cunliffe, Ellis, 300

  Cunliffe, Foster, 248, 268, 272, 294, 300, 442

  Curaçao, 170, 186, 212–13, 214, 215, 217–19, 229, 255, 435–36

  Curtin, Professor Philip, 11–12, 14

  Curtis brothers, 684

  Cushing, Caleb, 757

  Cust, Peregrine, 321

  Cuthbert, Lewis, 531

  Cyane, 616, 617

  Cybo, Alderan, 456

  Cynics, slaves as viewed by, 29

  D’Acunha, Governor of Luanda, 704

  Dabues, Juan Miguel, 105

  Daendels, Herman Willem, 612, 692–93

  Dahomey, 13, 73, 226, 237, 253, 318, 319, 324, 326, 348, 355, 373, 391, 394, 556, 562, 565, 630, 777, 795

  Brazilian trade with, 358–59

  in 19th century, 694–97

  Oyo conquest of, 357–58

  slave trade in, 353–54, 359–60

  Daines, William, 530

  Dalzell, Archibald, 373

  Damel Budomel, Wolof King, 60

  Dampier, Captain William, 329

  Danish West India Company, 444

  Dapper, Olfert, 347

  Dark, 579

  Dark Ages, 32–34

  Darrisague, Estevan, 154

  Davenant, Charles, 202
r />   Davenport, William, 444

  Daver, Robert, 244

  Davis, Charles, 757

  Davis, David Brion, 11, 15

  Davis, Jefferson, 765

  Davy, Serjeant, 473

  Dawes, William, 499

  Dawson, James, 503, 504, 531, 532, 541

  Dawson, John, 295, 723

  Dawson, Margaret Baker, 503

  Dawson, Robert, 723

  Day, James, 245, 442

  Day, Thomas, 490

  de Almada, Governor of Cape Verde, 373

  Dean, John, 495

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 14, 466

  Defoe, Daniel, 181, 221, 236, 239, 247, 455, 456

  De Freitas, Lançarote, 23, 55, 58

  de Geer, Louis, 222

  Dei, Benedetto, 77

  Delassale d’Harader, Captain, 625

  D’Elbée, François, 355

  del Castillo, José, 542

  Delicias, Marquis de la, 749

  De l’intérêt de la France a l’égard de la traite des nègres (Sismondi), 585

  del Monte, Domingo, 629, 667, 748

  De los tratos de Indias y tratantes en ellas (Mercado), 422

  de Luynes family, 251, 301

  del Valle Cortés, José Antonio, 535

  del Valle Cortés, Juan Bautista, 535

  Demane, Henry, 498

  Demanet, Father, 338

  Demerara (Guiana), 541, 551, 571

  Dempster, George, 513–14

  Deniston, William, 295

  Denman, Captain Joseph, 409, 652, 654, 660, 669–70, 672, 683, 689, 712, 723, 735, 736, 738, 761

  Denmark, 172, 223–24, 252, 292, 299, 346, 350–51, 354, 388

  Caribbean possessions of, 210, 255–56

  importation of slaves abolished by, 526–27, 528, 549

  Dennis, Pierre-Thomas, 625

  Denonville, Viscount of, 194

  Denton, Vachell, 799

  de Poëy family, 542–43

  de Prado, Captain, 66

  Derby, Edward Stanley, fourteenth earl of, 755

  De Republica (Cicero), 29

  Desbarbès, André, 626

  De Servis et Eorum Apud Veteres Minsteriis (Pignoria), 125

  Desire, 177

  Des peines infamantes à infliger aux négriers (Gregoire), 591, 623

  Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 548

  Déveaux, Jean-Michel, 293, 623n

  Devonshire, Duchess of, 540n

  Devyanes, William, 495, 550

  de Wolf, Charles, 285, 545n

  de Wolf, George, 293, 294, 569, 603, 603n

  de Wolf, James, 10, 285, 286, 294, 295, 297, 300, 480–81, 533, 534–35, 537, 545–46, 556, 569, 602, 616, 618, 794

  de Wolf, John, 285, 569

  de Wolf, Levi, 285

  de Wolf, Mark Antony, 284–85, 534

  de Wolf, William, 285

  de Wolff, Abel, 187

  de Wolff, Dirck, 187

  Dhariette, Etienne, 294

  Diario de la Marina, 756

  Diario del gobierno de la Habana, 601, 640

  Dias, Bartolomeu, 82, 131

  Dias, Dinis, 57

  Dias, Luis, 131

  Dias, Pallos, 117

  Dias, Pedro, 79

  Dias de Novães, Paulo, 131, 132

  Dias Querido, Diogo, 162, 299

  Díaz Pimenta, Juan, 219, 224

  Dick (interpreter), 404

  Dickinson, John, 479

  Dickinson, Jonathan, 298, 302, 459

  Dickley, Samuel, 648

  Dictionnaire philosophique (Voltaire), 465

  Diderot, Denis, 464, 466, 480, 483

  Digby, Kenelm, 176

  Dike, Dr., 794–95

  Dillon, Arthur, 522

  Dillwyn, William, 477, 492

  Diman, Jeremiah, 537

  Di Noli, Antonio, 68

  Diodorus of Sicily, 28

  Diogo I, King of Congo, 128

  Discombe, John, 597

  Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité (Rousseau), 466

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 573, 590, 657, 734

  Docemo, King of Benin, 777

  Doddridge, Philip, 494

  Dolben, Sir William, 42, 508, 510, 513, 582

  Doll, Senhora, 344

  Dolphin, 661, 662, 690

  Dolz, J. N., 556

  Dominica, 173, 274

  Donnan, Professor Elizabeth, 173

  Doran, James, 474

  Doria, Luis, 70

  Doria, Teodisio, 50, 51

  Douglas, John, 380

  Douglas, Stephen, 764, 770

  Douglass, Frederick, 14

  Downing, Emmanuel, 197

  Downing, Sir George, 196–97

  Drake, Sir Francis, 12, 140, 157–58

  Drake, John, 514

  Drake, Philip (Richard), 380, 570–71, 615, 690, 712, 725, 761

  Drake, Santiago, 542–43

  Drax, James, 188

  Dreschler, Professor Seymour, 542

  Driscoll, Cornelius, 675

  Drouin, Louis, 295

  Drouin, René, 295

  Drouin family, 251, 523

  Duarte, Sebastián, 179–80

  Duarte Nunes, 218

  Dubois, Captain, 612

  Dubois, W. E. B., 502

  Dubourg, Chevalier, 355

  Ducasse, Jean-Baptiste, 193, 194, 227–28, 295

  du Chaillu, Paul, 701–2

  Duck, George, 800

  Duckett, Sir Lionel, 156

  Du Contrat social (Rousseau), 466

  Ducudray-Bourgault (trader), 595–96

  Dudley, Joseph, 207, 454

  Dueñas, Rodrigo de, 101

  Duffield, Peter, 357

  Duke, Antera, 353, 362

  Dulce, Domingo, 768, 779, 783

  Dulcert, Angelino, 50–51

  Dumaigne (trader), 682

  Dum Diversas (papal bull), 65

  Duncan, John, 680, 698

  Dundas, Henry (later first viscount Melville), 495, 507, 536, 539, 540, 550, 551, 553, 581

  “amendment” of, 528–29, 530, 538

  Dunlop, Hugh, 738

  Dunmore, John Murray, fourth earl of, 481

  Dupuis (British official), 561

  Dupuis, Jean-Louis, 373

  Duquesne, Abraham, 436

  Duraboña, Francisco, 779

  Durán, Cristóbal, 543

  Durán, Diego, 95

  Duras, Duchess of, 624

  Dutch East India Company, 160–61, 185, 204, 256, 321, 369, 389, 495

  Dutch West India Company, 160–61, 162, 169, 170, 172, 183, 186, 190, 192, 203, 210, 213, 214, 215, 218, 222, 225, 227, 229, 255, 292, 308, 348, 349, 365, 371, 375, 379, 391, 403, 411, 444, 452, 800

  Duval, Captain, 706

  Duverne, Isaac, 160

  Dying Negro, The (Day), 490

  Dying Slave (Michelangelo), 124

  Dyula (Mandingo), 72

  Eagle, 660, 661

  Eannes, Gil, 53–54, 55

  Earle, Thomas, 491, 515

  Earle, William, 285, 491

  Early, Peter, 552

  East Africa, 82–83, 111–12, 116, 184, 314, 368, 511, 586, 595, 669, 677, 700, 716, 789

  Atlantic crossing from, 707–8

  19th-century slave trade in, 704–8

  East-Indian Merchant, 390

  Eaton, John, 649

  Ebicram, King, 376

  Ebrero, King, 362

  Ebro, Dick, 363–64

  Edmundson, William, 458

  Edward IV, King of England, 76

  Edwards, Bryan, 540

  Edwards, Jonathan, 502

  Efik traders, 363, 795

  Egica, King, 35

  Egmont, John Perceval, first earl of, 461

  Egremont, Charles, second earl of, 273–74

  Egrot, Maurice, 192

  Eguia, Francisco de, 96

  Egypt, 261, 510, 563, 664

  ancient, 25, 27, 28, 43, 791

  Ehrman, John, 506n, 507n, 529n />
  El Cometa, 533, 543

  El Corresponsal, 669

  Eldon, John Scott, first earl of, 557

  Elements of Moral Science (Beattie), 535

  Eligius, Saint, 35

  Eliza, 531, 597, 612

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 155, 156, 157

  Ellery, William, 519

  Ellis, Charles, 540

  Ellsworth, Oliver, 500

  Ellzey, John, 175

  Elmina fortress, 80–81, 102, 106, 107–8, 111, 155, 175, 190, 221, 303, 304, 315, 347–48, 350, 355, 635

  described, 348–49

  Dutch capture of, 171, 183

  French attack on, 153–54

  in 19th century, 692–93

  Elvas, Antônio Fernandes, 164–65, 167, 178, 299

  emancipados, 599, 606–7, 608, 640, 641–42, 645, 667–68, 701, 745, 749–50, 754, 756, 759, 784, 787

  Anglo-Spanish Treaty of 1835 and, 655–56

  Emanuel (slave), 800–801

  Emilia, 595

  Encyclopédie, 464, 466, 483

  England, 35, 36, 42, 76, 174, 196, 202, 204, 210, 214–15, 335, 338, 339, 344, 346, 349–51, 354, 357, 360, 361, 369, 388, 393

  France’s slave trade rivalry with, 229–30

  indentured servitude era and, 177–78

  London-based slave trade of, 196–98

  Navigation Laws of, 188–89

  royal backers of slave trade in, 198–201

  Spanish slave trade with, 218–19, 230–31

  Utrecht Treaty and, 231

  Whydah settlement and, 355–56

  see also Great Britain; Royal Africa Company; South Sea Company

  Enlightenment, 464–66

  Enquiry into the Effects of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, An (Ramsay), 491

  Enrique IV, King of Spain, 64

  Enríquez, Felipe, 458

  Enríquez, Martin, 158

  Enríquez, Miguel, 240

  Enterprize, 443

  voyage of, 809–11

  Eon, Guillaume, 239

  Ephraim, Duke, 362, 653, 795

  Epictetus, 29

  “Epistle to Lord Burlington” (Pope), 244n

  Equiano, Olaudah, 377, 410, 414, 438, 474, 798, 799

  Erasmus, 124

  Ericks, Bernard, 159

  Erie, 774, 775

  Erskine, Thomas, first lord, 553–54

  “Escalera Conspiracy,” 748

  Escobar, Pero de, 73, 80

  Escovar, Francisco de, 118

  Esnambuc, Bélain d’, 173

  Espagnol, André l’, 192

  Espartero, General, 666, 747

  Espindola, Polo de, 102

  Esprit des lois, L’ (Montesquieu), 449, 465–66, 470

  Esquivel, Lorena de, 179

  Es-Sahili (architect), 46

  Essai sur les moeurs (Voltaire), 467

  Essay on the Conversion and Treatment of the African Slaves (Ramsay), 491

  Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, An (Clarkson), 492

  Essays Historical and Moral (Gregory), 490

  Es-Segli, Ahmed, 114

  Essequibo colony, 551

  Esserjee (slave), 427–28

  Estrées, Marshal d’, 338

  Ethiope Resgatado, Empenhado, Sustenado, Corregido, Instruido e Libertado (Ribeiro de Rocha), 463

 

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