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    The Asiento de Negros (lit. 'agreement of blacks') was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide enslaved...
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    083. The town of Real de Asientos serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Asientos. Real de Asientos was declared a Pueblo Mágico...
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    debt. To generate income, in 1713 the company was granted a monopoly (the Asiento de Negros) to supply African slaves to the islands in the "South Seas"...
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  • 16°49′00″S 67°33′00″W / 16.81667°S 67.55000°W / -16.81667; -67.55000 Asiento Araca is a town in Cairoma Municipality, Loayza Province of La Paz Department...
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    the Asiento de Negros; as historian G.M. Trevelyan noted: "The finances of the country were based in May 1711 on the assumption that the Asiento, or monopoly...
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    The War of Jenkins' Ear (Spanish: Guerra del Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement') was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain...
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  • El Asiento is a ward (consejo popular) and village in the municipality of Chambas, Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba. In the village and nearby CNA (Non-Agricultural...
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  • Real Asiento de Inglaterra or Real Asiento de la Gran Bretaña was the name in Spanish of the subsidiary in Buenos Aires of the South Sea Company. In 1713...
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  • Los Asientos is a corregimiento in Pedasí District, Los Santos Province, Panama with a population of 755 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 1,007;...
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  • las obras de mejora en el Nuevo Los Cármenes, incluido el pintado de los asientos". ideal.es. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 21 September...
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  • government. Previously the Asiento had been held by the Portuguese and by Genoese, Dutch and French slave traders. The Asiento specified that the British...
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    formally signed on 5 October 1750 in Madrid. Commercial tensions over the Asiento, a monopoly contract allowing foreign merchants to supply slaves to Spanish...
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    in Africa to purchase slaves; the Spanish Empire instead relied on the asiento system, awarding merchants from other European nations the license to trade...
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    Retrieved 19 May 2022. Swingen, Abigail L. (2015). The Slave Trade, the Asiento, and the National Interest, 1698–1718. Yale University Press. doi:10...
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  • was a Marrano. He was contracted by the Spanish Empire with an official asiento to provide their colonies in the Spanish Americas with African slaves from...
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    secure Dutch recognition of Philip V. In 1701, Philip transferred the asiento (the right to supply slaves to Spanish colonies) to France, as a sign of...
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    Gibraltar and Menorca, while giving Britain a thirty-year monopoly on the Asiento de Negros, the right to import slaves into their American colonies. Despite...
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  • A340-300 operations 23 November 2016 "Iberia renueva su clase business con un asiento totalmente abatible". viajar.elperiodico.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved...
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  • El Diario Vasco. 4 June 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017. "La Real, a 200 asientos de dejar de hacer socios" [Real, 200 seats til a halt on accepting members]...
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    partially fried or toasted tortilla covered with a spread of refried beans, asiento (unrefined pork lard), lettuce or cabbage, avocado, meat (usually shredded...
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  • Pedrola y Carlos Soroa: "'Bienvenidos a Edén' te deja con el culo pegado al asiento"". Men's Health. "Las claves de 'Bienvenidos a Edén', lo nuevo de Netflix"...
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    Bolivian silver to Spain and for the import of enslaved Africans under the asiento system. It was defensible against pirate attacks in the Caribbean. The...
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    exit point to the Mediterranean. Spain ceded the rights to the lucrative asiento (permission to sell African slaves in Spanish America) to Britain. With...
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    located just a few kilometers from the abandoned colonial mining town, the Asiento de San Luis de Alba. While it is sometimes still erroneously referred to...
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    fetched in Brazil. In addition to this newly acquired access to the Spanish asientos, the Portuguese were able to solve their bullion shortage issues with access...
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    provision for British merchants to legally sell slaves with a license (Asiento de Negros) slaves to Spanish America. The provision undermined the possibility...
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    Palenque's African past. Africans were dispatched to Spanish America under the asiento system. The village of San Basilio is inhabited mainly by Afro-Colombians...
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    Spain in the Iberian Union. Most Portuguese contractors who obtained the asiento between 1580 and 1640 were conversos. For Portuguese merchants, many of...
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    status of the Netherlands as an economic world power. Already in 1528, an asiento or contract was made between the rulers of Spain and assumingly the Southern...
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    settlement of the War of the Spanish succession, Britain obtained the asiento, a Spanish government contract, to supply slaves to Spain's new world colonies...
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