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ABSTRACT In 1627 and 1628, Francisco de Prada carried out a royal commission to investigate illicit arrivals of slaving voyages to Santo Domingo and San Juan over the previous five years. The witness testimony he gathered during the course of his investigation reveals that—even though Cartagena and Veracruz had become the primary official destinations for enslaved Africans transported to Spanish America—these ports remained closely connected to Portuguese African territories and to regional trade circuits due to periodic emergency entries by slaving vessels using them as alternate entry points to the Spanish Caribbean. While Prada's records obscure the human stories of thousands of enslaved Africans taken to Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, they contain a variety of valuable insights into informal slaving routes and practices in a multinational Caribbean prior to the end of the Portuguese asiento period in 1640.
摘要1627年和1628年，弗朗西斯科·德·普拉达（Francisco de Prada）成立了一个皇家委员会，调查过去五年中圣多明各（Santo Domingo）和圣胡安（San Juan）非法入境的奴隶活动。他在调查过程中收集的证人证词显示，尽管卡塔赫纳和韦拉克鲁斯已成为被奴役的非洲人运往西班牙美洲的主要官方目的地，但由于奴隶船定期紧急进入这些港口，这些港口与葡非领土和地区贸易线路仍保持着密切联系西班牙加勒比海的备用入境点。虽然普拉达的记录掩盖了数千名被奴役的非洲人被带到伊斯帕尼奥拉岛和波多黎各的人类故事，但它们包含了对1640年葡萄牙阿西恩托时期结束前加勒比多国非正式奴隶贩卖路线和做法的各种有价值的见解。
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Colonial Latin American Review (CLAR) is a unique interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the colonial period in Latin America. The journal was created in 1992, in response to the growing scholarly interest in colonial themes related to the Quincentenary. CLAR offers a critical forum where scholars can exchange ideas, revise traditional areas of inquiry and chart new directions of research. With the conviction that this dialogue will enrich the emerging field of Latin American colonial studies, CLAR offers a variety of scholarly approaches and formats, including articles, debates, review-essays and book reviews.
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