The Portuguese slave trade in early modern Japan : merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves / by Lúcio de Sousa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sousa, Lúcio de, author.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in global slavery ; v. 7.

Studies in global slavery, 2405-4585 ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Japan--History--16th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Japan--History--17th century.

Slave trade--Portugal--History--16th century.

Slave trade--Portugal--History--17th century.

History.

Portugal.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 594 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves Lucio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan. Using the Portuguese mercantile networks, de Sousa 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.

Contents:

The Chinese stage

The Japanese stage

The Korean stage

Reorganization of the Portuguese slave trade

The structure of Portuguese slavery in Japan

Case studies: crossing diasporas

The Iberian world and the Japanese diaspora

Japanese slavery and Iberian legislation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Sousa, Lúcio de, author. Portuguese slave trade in early modern Japan

ISBN:

9789004388079

9004388079

Publisher Number:

99983111188

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