HIST 380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Godparent, Fictive Kinship, Nahuatl
1 Dec 2018
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Tomas de mercado was a spanish dominican priest and was one of the first students to attend the university of mexico in 1530. Wrote a treatise for merchants to bring spain"s overseas commerce in line with catholic doctrine. He argued that, although slavery itself was justified by spanish law, slave trade as practiced was too full of corruption and abuse. Kidnapped and sold innocent villagers instead of selling war captives. Few spaniards took mercado"s advice and the portuguese didn"t even try to justify their actions. Just claimed that they were converting african souls into. The portuguese dominated the slave trade well into the seventeenth. Until the english took over after the 1640s, in addition to the. The only break on african slavery was that it was expensive and only profitable in some areas. Most slaves were mass slaves forced to labor on sugar plantations or in gold mines.
