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Book SynopsisIn The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.
Trade ReviewWinner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019 “With his assiduous tracking and identification of the humans trafficked across the Eastern hemisphere, the author has produced a new and slightly provocative standard that is unlikely to be easily duplicated, meanwhile also unwittingly calling attention to the need for even deeper research on some of the circuits of the uglier side of the slave trade, as seen with the Indian Ocean littoral. All in all, this is a commendable work and a great resource for students of medieval Japanese history and Portuguese “expansion.”” – Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74/2 (2019) "With no significant primary sources specifically on the Portuguese slave trade, the author has clearly made a prodigious effort to comb through documents at archives in Macau, India, Portugal, Italy, and Spain for references to Asian slaves and to compile an important account of a significant part of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The result is a comprehensive study in English on a topic that has received little attention but will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." – Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound, in: The Journal of Japanese Studies 47/1 (2021)
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction Terminology The Book’s Structure 1 The Chinese Stage The Chinese Stage Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence Examples from the Chinese Diaspora 2 The Japanese Stage The Japanese Stage The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves 3 The Korean Stage The Macao Ship and Korean Slaves European Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi 4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the “Nau De Macau” and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600–14) The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan 5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan Capture Other Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the Portuguese Sale Transportation The Society of Jesus and the Ballot System Price and Number of Slaves 6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos The Japanese slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos The 1640 Delegation and the “Korean” Miguel Carvalho From Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz 7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora Macao The Philippines Goa Japanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in Asia Mexico Peru Argentina Portugal Spain 8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation From the Reconquista to Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550–80 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580–1600 Conclusion Bibliography Index
