RT Journal Article
T1 Slavery and the slave trade in Spanish economic thought, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
A1 Perdices Blas, Luis
A1 Ramos Gorostiza, José Luis
AB Between the sixteenth century and the eighteenth slavery acquired an undoubted economic importance in the Spanish Empire, both because of the growing weight of slave labor in the New World and owing to the political, economic and administrative relevance of successive asientos. However, the attention paid to the issues of slavery and the slave trade in Spanish economic literature was decreasing: from having a place in scholastic texts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to becoming something completely marginal for the economists of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. The aim of this article is to highlight this paradox by analyzing the few texts of scholastic theologians, arbitristas and economists of the Enlightenment that addressed slavery and the slave trade. The question is interesting, since in these three centuries the Spanish economic debates reached a good level, as reflected in the translations into other European languages of numerous Spanish economic works.
PB Fabrizio Serra
SN 1724-2169
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34228
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34228
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025