The globalization of slavery begins as the …
Years: 1540 - 1551
The globalization of slavery begins as the Spanish and Portuguese begin to purchase and transport captive Africans in great numbers to their new empires in the depopulated Americas, enslaving them and their posterity to the European-owned plantations of sugarcane and mines of gold and silver.
Groups
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of
- Brazil, Colonial
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
- Cuba (Spanish Colony)
- Guatemala, (Spanish Colony)
- Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire
- Nueva Galicia or El Nuevo Reino de Galicia (The New Kingdom of Galicia)
- New Spain, Viceroyalty of
- Panama, Royal Audencia of
- Peru, Viceroyalty of
- Brazil, Colonial
