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- The Asiento de Negros (lit. 'agreement of blacks') was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide enslaved...
- debt. To generate income, in 1713 the company was granted a monopoly (the Asiento de Negros) to supply African slaves to the islands in the "South Seas"...
- Asientos is a muni****lity in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at 22°14′N 102°05′W / 22.233°N 102.083°W / 22.233; -102.083. The town of...
- the Asiento de Negros; as historian G.M. Trevelyan noted: "The finances of the country were based in May 1711 on the ****umption that the Asiento, or monopoly...
- British merchants access to markets in Spanish America, including the Asiento de Negros, a monopoly to supply 5,000 slaves a year. Another was the Navio...
- 16°49′00″S 67°33′00″W / 16.81667°S 67.55000°W / -16.81667; -67.55000 Asiento Araca is a town in Cairoma Muni****lity, Loayza Province of La Paz Department...
- Real de Asientos, known among its inhabitants as Villa de Asientos, is a locale in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It is located 11 miles north of...
- El Asiento is a ward (consejo po****r) and village in the muni****lity of Chambas, Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba. In the village and nearby CNA (Non-Agricultural...
- government. Previously the Asiento had been held by the Portuguese and by Genoese, Dutch and French slave traders. The Asiento specified that the British...
- formally signed on 5 October 1750 in Madrid. Commercial tensions over the Asiento, a monopoly contract allowing foreign merchants to supply slaves to Spanish...