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Winner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019
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.
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.
Price: $261.00
Pages: 594
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
20 December 2018
ISBN: 9789004365803
Format: Hardcover
Winner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019
“With his assiduous tracking and identification of the humans trafficked across the Eastern hemisphere, the author has produced a new and slightly provocative standard that is unlikely to be easily duplicated, meanwhile also unwittingly calling attention to the need for even deeper research on some of the circuits of the uglier side of the slave trade, as seen with the Indian Ocean littoral. All in all, this is a commendable work and a great resource for students of medieval Japanese history and Portuguese “expansion.”” – Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74/2 (2019)
"With no significant primary sources specifically on the Portuguese slave trade, the author has clearly made a prodigious effort to comb through documents at archives in Macau, India, Portugal, Italy, and Spain for references to Asian slaves and to compile an important account of a significant part of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The result is a comprehensive study in English on a topic that has received little attention but will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." – Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound, in: The Journal of Japanese Studies 47/1 (2021)
“With his assiduous tracking and identification of the humans trafficked across the Eastern hemisphere, the author has produced a new and slightly provocative standard that is unlikely to be easily duplicated, meanwhile also unwittingly calling attention to the need for even deeper research on some of the circuits of the uglier side of the slave trade, as seen with the Indian Ocean littoral. All in all, this is a commendable work and a great resource for students of medieval Japanese history and Portuguese “expansion.”” – Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74/2 (2019)
"With no significant primary sources specifically on the Portuguese slave trade, the author has clearly made a prodigious effort to comb through documents at archives in Macau, India, Portugal, Italy, and Spain for references to Asian slaves and to compile an important account of a significant part of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The result is a comprehensive study in English on a topic that has received little attention but will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." – Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound, in: The Journal of Japanese Studies 47/1 (2021)
Lúcio de Sousa is an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Asian Studies at University of Oporto (Oporto, Portugal). He was a book winner by the Macao Foundation, the Social Science in China Press and the GuangDong Social Sciences Association (2013).