Inns, mules, and hardtack for the voyage: the local economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico

Seijas, Tatiana

doi:10.1080/10609164.2016.1180787

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“…Mexico City was also part of these early over-land trade routes [54]. From Acapulco, merchant ships sailed west across the Pacific to Manila via the Manila galleon trade seeking oriental products [55], but ships could also have proceeded to other ports on the western coast of South America [56]. The maritime network from Acapulco to other ports on the west coast of South America is highly likely, based on the availability royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsos R. Soc.…”

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European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens

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Chickens ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) from the Americas have long been recognized as descendants of European chickens, transported by early Europeans since the fifteenth century. However, in recent years, a possible pre-Columbian introduction of chickens to South America by Polynesian seafarers has also been suggested. Here, we characterize the mitochondrial control region genetic diversity of modern chicken populations from South America and compare this to a worldwide dataset in order to investigate the potential maternal genetic origin of modern-day chicken populations in South America. The genetic analysis of newly generated chicken mitochondrial control region sequences from South America showed that the majority of chickens from the continent belong to mitochondrial haplogroup E. The rest belongs to haplogroups A, B and C, albeit at very low levels. Haplogroup D, a ubiquitous mitochondrial lineage in Island Southeast Asia and on Pacific Islands is not observed in continental South America. Modern-day mainland South American chickens are, therefore, closely allied with European and Asian chickens. Furthermore, we find high levels of genetic contributions from South Asian chickens to those in Europe and South America. Our findings demonstrate that modern-day genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens appear to have clear European and Asian contributions, and less so from Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Furthermore, there is also some indication that South Asia has more genetic contribution to European chickens than any other Asian chicken populations.

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“…35 Black innkeepers and laborers profited from their monopoly on hospitality and services (and the desperation of sailors and travelers) to charge exorbitant rates for housing, portage, and water. 36 As they acquired their freedom, Black women with years of experience in service and domestic settings gradually came to control these critical industries. From Acapulco to Callao, the labor of both enslaved and free Africans and Afro-descendants made ports and trade along Spanish America's Pacific coasts economically and infrastructurally viable.…”

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Galleon Anxiety: How Afro-Mexican Women Shaped Colonial Spirituality in Acapulco

Luis¹

2021

The Americas

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Acapulco became a global town during the early seventeenth century, characterized not only by transpacific trade, but also by an increasingly large Afro-Mexican population residing and laboring at the port. A cohort of Afro-Mexican women gained prominence and visibility by delivering accurate predictions on the arrival of galleons to Acapulco. They adapted mixed African and Indigenous divination practices to calm port residents worried about galleon losses on the world's largest ocean. Scholarship on the Spanish Pacific has yet to investigate how the globalization of New Spain through galleon travel affected African and Afro-descendant communities. This article contends that the dangers of Pacific travel, and anxieties about them, frequently exceeded the therapeutic capacities of Catholic dogma. Black women, drawing on the profound West and West Central African estimation of female diviners, practiced clairvoyance to report on the location of galleons and whether they would arrive safely. The confluence of an increasing population of Afro-Mexicans with the economic dynamism of transpacific trade transformed spiritual life at the eastern node of Spain's Pacific empire. Black women positioned themselves at the center of these massive structural transformations and ultimately created new cultures as spiritual authorities in Acapulco.

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“…Therefore, the route between Manila and Acapulco was far from being of minor importance to the global economy that emerged from the worldwide circulation of Hispanic-American silver. According to Seijas (2016, p. 56), the Galleon economic effects on New Spain's economy were significant: «[it] fostered manufacturing, promoted regional trade networks, and enabled Indians and people of mixed origins to participate in a monetized economy along with Spanish colonists ». Despite the interest in this rather unexplored field of research, we will not go deeper into it.…”

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AN EARLY CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN HISPANIC AMERICA? CONSUMPTION OF ASIAN GOODS BY THE COMMONERS IN 18^TH-CENTURY MEXICO

Dobado,

de Pinedo

2023

RHE / JILAEH

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Was there an early consumer revolution in Hispanic America? This article presents varied evidence supporting an affirmative answer to this question, especially regarding the case of New Spain. The inauguration of the Manilla Galleon trade route across the Pacific Ocean in 1565 was decisive in this respect. It made it possible that Asian goods (more or less finished silk and cotton textiles, porcelain, lacquerware, ivory religious images, furniture and spices, mainly) experienced an early diffusion throughout New Spain after arriving in Acapulco. This innovation in consumption patterns was adopted first by the elites, not much later, by the intermediate classes and, rather soon than not, by the commoners. Primary (i.e. Avalúos of the galleons' cargo) and secondary sources permit quantitatively exploring the possibilities of consumption of Asian goods by unprivileged segments of New Spain's population. We find that a non-negligible number of those goods were accessible to Mexico City labourers. Thus, it may be inferred that upper segments of society accessed it earlier and more easily. Therefore, New Spain should be included in any global narrative of the changes in consumption during the Early Modern Era.

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Inns, mules, and hardtack for the voyage: the local economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens

European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens

Galleon Anxiety: How Afro-Mexican Women Shaped Colonial Spirituality in Acapulco

AN EARLY CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN HISPANIC AMERICA? CONSUMPTION OF ASIAN GOODS BY THE COMMONERS IN 18^TH-CENTURY MEXICO

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Inns, mules, and hardtack for the voyage: the local economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico

Cited by 10 publications

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European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens

European and Asian contribution to the genetic diversity of mainland South American chickens

Galleon Anxiety: How Afro-Mexican Women Shaped Colonial Spirituality in Acapulco

AN EARLY CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN HISPANIC AMERICA? CONSUMPTION OF ASIAN GOODS BY THE COMMONERS IN 18TH-CENTURY MEXICO

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