This volume will be a reference for scholars interested in empirical reassessments of slave trading and routes of passage to Spanish America. Many of these chapters will fit easily into a standard college curriculum.--Norah L. A. Gharala, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

As the text more than adequately proves, much can be gained by including the experiences of colonial Spain within the larger transnational histories of the Atlantic slave trade. . . . This is an important book that will be of value to a variety of scholars and their students. Highly recommended.--J. Rankin, Choice

As the text more than adequately proves, much can be gained by including the experiences of colonial Spain within the larger transnational histories of the Atlantic slave trade. . . . This is an important book that will be of value to a variety of scholars and their students. Highly recommended.--J. Rankin, Choice

[This book] is an important contribution to the growing literature on the Atlantic World. The contributors explore the labor and intellectual role of enslaved and free Africans in the organization of colonial towns and economies in the Spanish Empire.--Mariana P. Candido, author of An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland