The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan : Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (608 pages)
- Studies in Global Slavery Series ; v.7 .
- Studies in Global Slavery Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Terminology -- The Book's Structure -- Chapter 1 -- The Chinese Stage -- The First Portuguese in Southeast Asia and China -- The Portuguese Adventurers and the First Chinese Slaves -- Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence -- Examples from the Chinese Diaspora -- Chapter 2 -- The Japanese Stage -- The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves -- Chapter 3 -- The Korean Stage -- The Macao Ship and Korean Slaves -- European Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi -- Korean Captives in Japan -- Forced Migration and Famine and the Slave Trade Peak in Nagasaki -- The Korean Community in Nagasaki and Catholicism -- The Dominican Order -- The Society of Jesus -- The Franciscan Order -- Some Examples of Korean Diaspora outside Japan -- Chapter 4 -- Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade -- The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the "Nau De Macau" and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600-14) -- The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan -- Chapter 5 -- The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan -- Capture -- Canvassers/angariadores/hitokadoi -- Canvassers Selling to Traders -- Canvassers Selling to Brokers -- Amateur Canvassers Selling to Brokers and Traders -- Other Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the Portuguese -- Sale -- Brokers/ corretores/hitoakibito (人商人 ヒトアキビト)) -- Buyers/compradores/hitokai (人 (ヒトカイ)) -- Nationalities of the Canvassers/Angariadores/Hitokadoi and Brokers -- Buyers' Nationalities -- Place of Sale in Nagasaki -- Transportation -- The hitokaibune (人 い ) -- The Ship and Its Tonnage. The Society of Jesus and the Ballot System -- The Beginning of the Ballot-Paper System -- Ballot Papers' Issuing Location -- The Examination -- The Content of the Ballot -- Perpetual Ballots -- Limited-Time Ballots/Time Bondage -- Price and Number of Slaves -- Slave Prices -- Estimates of the Number of Slaves Carried from Japan -- Chapter 6 -- Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas -- The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos -- The First Female Chinese Slave in Europe -- Diaz's Imprisonment and Escape -- Epilogue -- The Japanese Slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos -- The Pérez's Family's Journey from Viseu to Nagasaki -- The Pérez Family in Nagasaki -- Gaspar's Testimony -- Flight to Manila -- Arrival in Manila and Purchase of Two Japanese Servants -- Rui Pérez's Capture and the Trip to Mexico -- Mexico City's Inquisition Court -- Chronology of Events -- The 1640 Delegation and the "Korean" Miguel Carvalho -- From Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz -- Slave Regulations at the Society of Jesus -- Number of Slaves Belonging to the Society of Jesus -- The Case of Iyo: Identity Manipulation by Jesuits and Franciscans -- The Biography of Iyo -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7 -- The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora -- Macao -- The Establishment of Japanese in Macao and Their Professional Occupations -- The Japanese Students' Seminary -- The 1625 Census and the Japanese Origin of the First Macanese -- Prominent Japanese in Macao -- Japanese Lay Christians in Macao -- In Search of the Japanese Quarter in Macao -- Conclusions -- The Philippines -- The Importance of the Japanese Community in Manila -- Professional Occupations of the Japanese in Manila -- Female Presence -- The Unusual Case of Japanese Christian Lepers in Manila -- Conclusions -- Goa. Japanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in Asia -- The Philippines -- Macao -- Goa -- Malacca -- Conclusions -- Mexico -- The Asian System of Entry to the Americas -- The Japanese in Mexico -- Conclusions -- Peru -- Argentina -- Portugal -- The Asian System of Entry to Lisbon -- Lisbon's Slave Associations -- The Japanese in Lisbon -- Serpa -- Conclusions -- Spain -- Chapter 8 -- Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation -- From the Reconquista to 1550 -- Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550-80 -- The First Council of Goa (1567) -- Resolutions of Francisco Rodrigues S.J. to Regulate the Slave Trade in China and Japan -- The Abolition of Japanese Slavery in Portuguese Territories -- The Second Provincial Council of Goa (1575) -- Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580-1600 -- The Third Provincial Council (1585) -- The 1587 Anti-Christian Edict and the Abjuring of Slavery in Japan by Acquaviva -- Gabriel Vasquez's Resolutions on the Regulation of the Slave Trade in China and Japan -- The 1592 Provincial Council of Goa and the Excommunication of Portuguese Slavers -- Bishop Luís de Cerqueira and the 1598 Consultation -- Bishop Cerqueira's Campaign and Enforcement of the Law against Slavery in Goa -- Opposition from Goa City Hall -- The First Goa City Hall Letter to the King -- The Second Goa City Hall Letter to the King and the Collapse of the Japanese Slave Trade in the Habsburg Territories -- The Fifth Provincial Council -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; 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.