Society of castas: Spanish America
1580: colonial hegemony
Post-conquest society (Spanish America)
Gender: patriarchies and double standards
Ethno-racial composition, New Spain
Race/calidad/casta
Three divisions
Marriageways
Slavery
Slave Traffic from Africa: 1451-1870 (data repeated on next 4 maps)
Slave Traffic (figures in thousands): 1451-1600, beginning (1/4 million) (P.D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade)
Slave Traffic: 1601-1700, growing (1.3 million)
Slave Traffic: 1701-1810, peaking (6 million)
Slave Traffic: 1811-1870, declining (2 million)
Cacao Boom: Venezuela, 4 regions occurred after 1680s (data for 1684, 1720, 1744)
Encomienda and encomenderos
Potosí (Upper Peru), 1545: richest silver mine in the early modern world
Inside Potosí: native miners
End
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