Abstract

GARCIA DE LEON, Antonio. The Royal English Company in Veracruz during the Eighteenth Century: 1713-1748. Inv. Econ [online]. 2001, vol.61, n.237, pp.153-182. ISSN 0185-1667.

This study shows the traits of the last era of African slave's organized commerce in New Spain. After the victory of England in the Spanish Succession's War, there was imposed to Spanish Crown new conditions that benefit openly his rival: mainly, the exclusive con­ cession given to England for the trade Africans and Creoles slaves in the main Spanish American ports. Veracruz was marked by the presence of the South Sea Company. Ac­ cording original documents from Mexico and England, this essay tries to proves than Englishmen factors and traders control also, using the concession, the contraband, the le­ gal trade and the Jalapa's Fair. The after growth of New Spain's economy and the mayor accessibility of a free labor force made obsolete the slave use and the large scale trade.