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The Slave Trade

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by Hugh Thomas


  South Sea Company, 14, 235–42, 292, 307, 369, 388, 435, 437, 456, 464, 786

  branding of slaves by, 396–97

  Jamaica and, 236–37, 239

  numbers of slaves sold by, 241–42

  opposition to, 236–37, 239

  private traders and, 239–40

  profits of, 443

  RAC and, 238, 240

  royal shareholders of, 238–39

  speculative bubble and, 243–44

  Third Money Subscription to, 241

  types of slaves preferred by, 399–400

  War of Austrian Succession and, 266, 267

  Souza, Francisco Felix de, 687, 694, 695

  Souza, Louis de, 218

  Souza, Simon de, 218

  Souza Coelho, Pedro de, 168

  Spain, 9, 14, 22, 32, 34, 57, 66, 74–76, 78–79, 153, 178, 184, 200, 247, 252, 262, 266, 267, 279, 280, 284–86, 292, 333, 360, 543, 548, 566, 572, 585, 592, 593, 643, 644, 657, 658, 674, 701, 720, 729, 764, 768, 791

  abolition and, 503–6, 778, 781–83

  Alcáçovas Treaty and, 76

  Anglo-Spanish Treaty of 1815 and, 667

  Anglo-Spanish Treaty of 1818 and, 599–605

  Anglo-Spanish Treaty of 1835 and, 655, 656, 750

  British abolition and slave trade of, 567–68, 574, 575, 578–82, 589–90

  British asiento treaty with, 235–37

  British-Cuba relations and, 664–65, 753–55

  Catalonian rebellion and, 182

  census of 1841 in, 747

  Christian reconquest of, 23, 39–42, 163

  Dutch and slave trade of, 212–17

  English slave trade with, 218–19

  French slave treaty with, 227–29

  Granada monarchy and, 83–84

  Indians as slaves in, 96

  Jamaica lost by, 196, 211

  Louisiana acquired by, 274

  monopoly policy of, 101–2, 503–4

  Moorish conquest of, 34, 36–39

  Netherlands and, 159

  Ostend Manifesto and, 758

  Portugal conquered by, 139–40

  Portuguese rebellion and, 182

  resident slaves of, 119–20, 145–46, 163

  slave code of 1842 of, 669

  slave-master relationship and, 103–4

  slave merchants of, 117–19

  slavery policy of, 98–101

  Tordesillas Treaty and, 89

  types of slaves preferred by, 399–400

  U.S.-Cuba relations and, 753, 757–58

  Visigothic, 34–37, 40

  War of Jenkins’s Ear and, 246

  Speciale, Pietro, 100n

  Speedwell, 640, 784

  Spinola, Antonio, 70

  Spinola, Benedict, 156

  Spratt, Leonidas, 765

  Staël, Auguste de, 623

  Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine, Madame de, 494, 622–23, 797

  Standard (Charleston), 765

  Stanhope, James, first earl, 230

  Stanley, John, M.P., 525

  Stanley, Lieutenant, 772

  Stanley, Edward, Viscount, M.P., 755

  Stanton, John, 502–3

  Stanton, Joseph, 552

  State Department, U.S., 740

  Steele, Sir Richard, 455

  Stephen, James, 506, 539, 541–42, 543, 550, 592

  Sterne, Laurence, 455

  Sterry, Cyprian, 520

  Stevenson, Andrew, 662–63, 671

  Stewart, Charles, 476

  Stewart, Dugald, 656

  Stewart, Houston, 765

  Stockton, Robert Field, 616, 617, 619–20, 690

  Stoics, slavery as viewed by, 29

  Stone, Michael, 518

  Storey, Charles, 543

  Strangford, Percy Smythe, sixth viscount, 573, 576

  Strohm, John F., 661

  Strong, Jonathan, 473, 475

  Stronge, John, 428–29

  Stronge, Matthew, 428–29

  Strutt, Jedediah, 503n

  Sturge, Joseph, 657, 733, 734

  Stuyvesant, Peter, 186

  Suárez Argudín, José Antonio, 648

  Suárez de Peralta, Juan, 147

  Sublimis Deus (papal bull), 125

  Subordinateur, Le, 306

  Sudan, 43, 62, 381, 789

  Sugar Duty Act of 1846, 734, 737

  sugar trade, 80, 107, 121, 206, 252, 258, 266, 275, 346, 352, 403, 449, 487, 491, 526, 584, 597, 612, 648, 734, 751, 768, 792

  of Barbados, 187–88, 196

  black Africans’ suitability for, 136

  of Brazil, 105, 123–24, 135–38, 141, 159, 170, 187, 220, 278, 609, 630

  in Caribbean area, 91, 97, 99–100, 135–36, 187–88

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

  Denmark and, 256

  European demand for, 189–90, 262–64

  of Jamaica, 245, 275, 284, 531

  Jaruco mission and, 504–5

  labor conditions and, 190

  of Madeira Islands, 70–71, 77

  monopoly companies and, 188–89

  in New World, 97, 99–100

  of Puerto Rico, 100

  Saint-Domingue revolution and, 529–30

  of Santo Domingo, 100

  steam technology and, 532, 638

  sugar processing in, 135–36

  Suma de Tratos y Contratos (Mercado), 146

  Supreme Court, U.S., 718

  Supreme Junta of Caracas, 577

  Surcouf, Robert, 588

  Surinam, 186, 187, 255, 436, 516, 532n, 597, 611, 612

  Sutton, Richard, 458

  Swan, Samuel, 691

  Swanzy, Francis, 563, 659

  Sweden, 172, 176, 222, 223, 252, 292, 354, 388, 450, 585

  Swift, Jonathan, 238, 239, 455n

  System of Moral Philosophy, A (Hutcheson), 469

  System of the Principles of the Laws of Scotland (Wallace), 470

  Tacón, General Miguel, 602, 639, 641–42, 644, 645, 656, 665–66, 674, 676, 752

  Talbot, 176

  Talbot, Charles, 474

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de, 264, 583, 584, 585, 657

  Tallien, Jean-Lambert, 524

  Tallmadge, James, 615

  Tamango (Mérimée), 624, 625, 675, 680, 709, 799

  Taney, Roger Brooke, 661

  Tanner, James, 206

  Tapia, Cristóbal de, 100

  Tappan, Lewis, 718

  Tarleton, Colonel Banastre, 246, 516, 525, 528

  Tarleton, John, 294, 444, 509–10, 516, 531, 536, 541

  Tartar, 622, 652, 684, 715

  Tashufun, Yusef ibn (the Almoravid), 39

  Tassara (Spanish minister), 768–69

  Tatham v. Hodgson, 539

  Tavera, Juan de, 125

  Tawney, R. H., 86

  Taxation No Tyranny (Johnson), 478

  Taylor, John, 774

  Taylor, Samuel, 322, 496–97

  Taylor, William, 328–29

  Tegbesu, King of Dahomey, 327, 354, 358, 394–95, 695

  Teggia, Angiolino del, 50

  Teive, Diogo de, 70

  Telléz Giron, Pedro, 665

  Ten Books on Justice and Law (de Soto), 126

  Terence, 27

  “Teresa the Queen,” 399

  Terry, Tomás, 648

  Texas, 568, 614, 642, 753, 761

  Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Smith), 470, 478

  Thevet, André, 307

  Thistle, 572n, 612, 652

  Thomas, Charles, 380

  Thomas, Dalby, 206, 291, 302, 350, 352

  Thomas, Elie, 253

  Thomas, Hugh, 14, 526, 530, 531

  Thompson, Captain, 723

  Thompson, Dr., 686, 723

  Thompson, General, 501

  Thompson, Jacob, 770

  Thompson, John, 269

  Thompson, Robert, 269

  Thompson, Thomas Boulden, 498

  Thomson, Dr., 713

  Thomson, George, 175


  Thomson, James, 455, 488

  Thomson, Thomas, 717

  Thomson, “Waddy,” 660

  Thorne, Robert, 84

  Thornton, Henry, 498

  Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes (Woods), 492n

  Thoughts upon Slavery (Wesley), 477

  Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (Newton), 509

  Thurlow, Edward, first Lord, 507, 509, 530, 536, 550, 553

  Thurninger, Benjamin, 301

  Tilley, John, 499

  Times (London), 647, 667, 722, 764

  Timothy, Lewis, 462

  Tippoo Ti (slave trader), 704

  Tiro, 26

  Titu, Cusi, 103

  To, Temne Chief, 498

  tobacco trade, 348, 566, 570

  Tobago, 170, 223, 224, 274, 339, 550, 584

  Tobin, John, 565

  Tobin, Thomas, 404, 409, 417, 418, 420, 423–24, 677, 737

  Toca Gómez, Rafael de, 645

  Toccoa, 772–73

  Tod, David, 740

  Toledo, Francisco de, 139

  Toledo, María de, 103

  Tolmé, Charles David, 642, 655, 666

  Tolsey, Mr., 799

  Tomba (slave), 341, 394, 425

  Tondibi, Battle of, 144–45, 149

  Tordesillas, Treaty of, 89, 106

  Torices, Rafael, 648

  Toro family, 568

  Torre, Juan de la, 99

  Torre de Moncorvo, Viscount of, 658–59

  Torrente, Mariano, 665, 756

  Torres, Alonso de, 101

  Torres, Antonio de, 89

  Torres, Diego de, 169

  Tottenham, Major General, 517

  Toucey, Isaac, 769, 770

  Touchett, Samuel, 249, 273, 282, 294, 297

  “Touching Barbados,” 187

  Tourney (Tournai), Anthony, 323

  Towerson, William, 155, 379

  Towne, James, 310

  Townsend, Henry, 714

  Townshend, George, first marquis, 508–9

  Train, George Francis, 757

  trans-Saharan slave trade, 12, 33, 38, 43–47, 52, 114, 145, 180–81, 510–11, 563

  Travels (Park), 540n

  Treatise on the Scurvy (Lind), 245

  Trenchard, Edward, 616, 618

  Trent, 776, 778

  triangular trade, 153–57

  see also Atlantic crossing

  Trinidad, 97, 280, 550, 551, 640, 641, 655, 745n

  Triquier, A., 485

  Trist, Nicholas, 642

  Tristão, Nuno, 54, 55, 58

  Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 455

  Trochon, Charles, 392

  Trois Cousins, 369

  Trotter, Thomas, 309, 415, 419, 438

  “True and Impartial Account of What We . . . Believe for the Well Carrying On of This Trade, A” (Thomas), 302

  Tucker, Henry, 344–45, 687

  Tucker, John, 345

  Tucker, Thomas Tudor, 518

  Tucker, William, 662, 665, 670, 671, 699

  Tuckey, James, 564

  Tuero, Antonio, 779

  Tuite, Nicholas, 256

  Tupac Amaru, 535

  Turberville, George Lee, 500

  “Turkish pass,” 314

  Turnbull, David, 637, 665, 667, 668, 669, 748, 749, 760

  Turner, J.M.W., 490n, 786

  Turner, Thomas, 133, 675

  Twelvemonth Residence in the West Indies During the Transition from Slavery to Apprenticeship, A (Madden), 655

  Tyler, John, 748

  Ulibarrí, Martín de, 266–67

  Ulrich, Johann, 224

  Umari, al-, 42–43

  Underwood, Joseph, 703

  United Provinces of Central America, 598

  United States, 262, 284, 293, 462, 532, 545–46, 572, 577, 592, 613, 629, 651, 660, 768

  anti-slavery Act of 1818 in, 616

  ban on introduction of slaves into, 552

  Brazil’s slave trade with, 739–40

  breeding of slaves in, 570–71, 649

  British search treaty of 1861 with, 775–76, 785

  cotton trade of, 571–72, 597, 629

  Cuban slave trade and, 534–35, 542–43, 545, 571, 572, 649, 762–63

  and duty on importation of slaves, 462–63

  France and, 619–20

  Great Britain’s relations with, 660–64, 670–72

  illegal slave trade and, 568–69, 574, 575, 614–16, 649, 660–61, 766–67

  Manifest Destiny and, 752

  Ostend Manifesto and, 758

  Paris peace conference and, 486–87

  persistence of slavery in, 619, 629, 789–90

  proposed annexation of Cuba and, 752–53, 755, 757–58, 759, 768–69

  proposed purchase of Cuba and, 757–58, 773–74

  slavery abolished in, 776, 786

  South and revival of slave trade in, 764–65

  War of 1812 and, 579, 582

  Webster-Ashburton Treaty and, 671–72, 769

  United States Gazeteer, 297

  Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, The (Postlethwayte), 265

  Upshur, Abel Parker, 727

  Urban VIII, Pope, 451, 466

  Uriarte, Miguel de, 280, 294

  Urmstone, John, 258

  Uruguay, 503, 577

  Usselinx, Willem, 161–62, 172

  Utopia (More), 124

  Utrecht, Treaty of, 231, 235–36, 240

  Uztarize family, 568

  Váez de Acevedo, Antonio, 179

  Váez Sevilla, Sebastián, 179

  Váez Sevilla, Simón, 179

  Valarinho, Diogo, 74

  Valdés, Diego Gabriel de la Concepción, 747, 749, 756

  Valdés, General Jerónimo, 666–67, 668

  Valdivia, Pedro de, 103

  Valença, Marquis of, 329

  Valera, Carlos de, 75

  Valera, Juan, 781

  Valiente, Juan, 102–3

  Valladolid, Juan de, 74

  Vallarte (explorer), 58

  Vanbrugh, John, 241

  Van Buren, Martin, 660, 661, 727

  van Courtlandt, John, 271, 301

  van Courtlandt, Stephen, 271, 301

  van der Broecke, Pieter, 160

  van der Haagen, Pieter, 160

  van Horne, Garret, 271

  van Horne, William, 271

  Vansina, J. (historian), 375

  van Sirtema, Judge, 612

  Vanvoorn, Adrien, 404

  van Wyck, William, 487, 568

  Varela, Fr. Félix, 605

  Vasques, Colonel, 634

  Vassall, John, 176

  Vassall, Samuel, 176, 585n

  Vaughan, Benjamin, 527–28

  Vaughan, Charles, 600

  Vaz Coutinho, Gonzalo, 144, 164, 165, 166

  Vaz da Cunha, Peru, 80

  Vázquez, Fernando, 99

  Vázquez Queipo de Llano, Vicente, 750, 751

  Vecua, 697

  Vega, Diego de la, 167

  Velasco, Luis de, 143

  Velázquez, Diego, 89n, 112

  Venezuela, 101, 122, 123, 157, 170, 186, 211, 504, 567, 568, 577, 598, 638, 643, 792

  Venganza, 281

  Vénus, 352

  Verdaguer, José, 640–41

  Verger, Pierre, 576

  Vergueiro, Nicolau, 634

  Veritas Ipsa (papal bull), 125

  Vermont, 552

  Verney, William, 430

  Vernon, Edward, 275

  Vernon, James, 230

  Vernon, Samuel, 261, 305, 439

  Vernon, William, 261, 283, 305, 439, 480, 520

  Vespucci, Amerigo, 11, 86, 89, 90, 94, 112

  Vestal, 721

  Veturino, Giambattista, 117

  Vibaldo, Agustín de, 102

  Vicentius, Thomas, 40–41

  Victoria, Queen of England, 696

  Victorieux, 306

  Vidal, Captain, 653

  Vidal, Tadeo, 682–83

  Vidal de Negreiros, André, 219

/>   Vieira, Antonio, 183, 220, 452

  Vigne, François, 684

  Vilahut, Johannes, 41

  Vilaret de Joyeuse, Alexis, 627

  Vilhena, Maria de, 119

  Vili, kingdom of, 160, 183, 202, 326–27, 365, 366, 368, 702, 795

  Villadiego, Gaspar de, 95

  Villalobos, Miguel de, 216

  Villena, Marquis of, 179

  Villeneuve, Geoffroy de, 521

  Villiers, George (later fourth earl of Clarendon), 641, 649, 667, 752, 755

  Vincentius, Thomas, 40–41

  Vining, Harrison S., 770

  Virginia, 172, 186, 197, 246, 399, 463, 500–501, 502, 615, 792, 793

  breeding of slaves in, 570–71, 649

  slave trade and, 174, 175, 207–8, 244–45, 258, 259, 264, 649

  Virginia Times, 570

  Vitoria, Francisco de, 126

  Vivaldi, Ugolino, 50, 51

  Vivaldi, Vadino, 50, 51

  Vivaldo, Juan Fernando de, 119

  Vives, Francisco Dionisio, 638–39, 641, 645

  Vizcarrando, Julio, 781, 797

  Vogel, Theodor, 680

  Volcano do Sud, 595

  Volney, Count of, 496

  Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 235, 464–65, 467, 470n, 474n, 498, 589, 792

  Voyage à la Côte de Guinée (Labarthe), 547

  Voyage to Guinea, Brazil, and the West Indies (Atkins), 456

  Waddell, Hope, 372, 700

  Wadström, Carl Bernard, 335, 337–38, 374–79, 383, 413–14, 517, 521

  Wadsworth, H. S., 616

  Walker, William, 767

  Wallace, George, 470, 472

  Wallon, Henri, 793

  Walpole, Horace (later fourth earl of Orford), 467–68, 469, 471, 525

  Walpole, Sir Robert, first earl of Orford, 241, 474

  Walrond, Humphrey, 211–12

  Walsh, Antoine, 10, 251–52, 266, 267, 280–81, 296, 301, 306

  Walsh, François-Jacques, 252

  Walsh, Robert, 610, 632

  Walter, John, 261

  Walters, Jacob, 597

  Walton, William, 504

  Wanderer, 669, 766–77, 769, 770, 776

  Wansoul, Joseph de, 253

  Wanton, John, 260

  Wanton, Joseph, 270

  Wanton, William, 260

  War of 1812, 579, 582

  War of Jenkins’s Ear, 246

  War of the Austrian Succession, 255, 266

  War of the Spanish Succession, 227, 229, 231, 458

  Warren, Joseph, 479

  Warren, William, 774

  Washington, George, 502

  Waters, Richard, 705

  Watkins, John, 548

  Watson, Alderman, 525

  Watson, Rundle, 705

  Watt, Charles, 443

  Watt, James, 487

  Wealth of Nations (Smith), 478, 566, 573

  Weber, Max, 86

  Webster, Charles, 590

  Webster, Daniel, 671, 748, 755

  Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, 671–72, 769

  Wedgwood, Josiah, 493

  Weekly Miscellany, 468

  Wellesley, Henry, first lord Cowley, 580, 581, 583, 590

  Wellesley, Richard, Marquis Wellesley, 578

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first duke of, 580, 583, 585, 587, 595, 596, 659–69, 712

 

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