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6. A for Asiento: The slave trade from british to foreign colonies, CA. 1713–1739
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Published:June 2014
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This chapter focuses on the practice of branding African captives with the letter “A,” which presumably stood for Asiento, during the period of Britain’s slave trade to foreign colonies between 1713 and 1739. The practice was initiated by the South Sea Company, which seared the brand into the flesh of Africans as they passed through Jamaica en route to Spanish America. This branding was also intended to distinguish those who were legally introduced from those delivered by interlopers. The chapter examines the role of transshipment in the South Sea Company’s slave-trading operation; how the asiento complicated captives’ journeys to New World slavery; and how British interlopers encroached on the South Sea Company’s trade to Spanish America and continued selling Africans illegally in French markets. Finally, it considers the South Sea Company’s disillusionment with the asiento by the end of the 1730s.
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