The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan : Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves / Lúcio De Sousa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sousa, Lúcio de, author.

Series:

Studies in Global Slavery 7.

Studies in Global Slavery ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade.

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

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

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

Japan--History.

Japan.

Portugal--History.

Portugal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

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:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction 1

1 The Chinese Stage 11

2 The Japanese Stage 48

3 The Korean Stage 90

4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade 180

5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan 260

6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas 303

7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora 361

8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation 478

Conclusion 539

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-38807-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004388079 DOI