Historical Person

Pedro Gómez Reynel

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International history trans-atlantic slavery 📍 Spain

Pedro Gómez Reynel

Gender: Male

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Spanish Crown grants a major asiento for African captives

📅 30 January 1595

The Crown granted Reynel a contract to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish America. The asiento system made trafficking a regulated imperial monopoly, with African captives treated as taxable cargo...