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Capítulo 5. Los negros en Guayaquil s. XVII

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Tardieu, Jean-Pierre·2006·El negro en la Real Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador)

Abstract

Si la economía serrana no justificaba la presencia de una importante mano de obra servil, era diferente en la costa por varios motivos. Primero era mucho más fácil adquirir esclavos que procedían directamente de Panamá, aunque la documentación evoca una ruptura en el abastecimiento después de la secesión de Portugal en 1640 hasta por lo menos el decenio de los años cincuenta. Las costumbres de los indios de tierra adentro, cuyas comunidades autónomas vivían aisladas en la tupida selva, no le...

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This chapter examines the purchase, sale, and daily life of enslaved Black and mulatto people in seventeenth-century Guayaquil, arguing that the port's shipyard economy produced a slave market and labor regime distinct from that of Quito. It draws on notarial protocols to reconstruct prices, ethnic origins, occupations, manumission, and religious control.

Key findings

  • The corpus of 71 enslaved individuals sold between 1628 and 1678 comprised 52 *bozales* (73.23%) and only 19 *criollos*; of the 52 bozales, 34 (65.38%) came from the Bantu zone, with Angolas "ampliamente mayoritarios," and women were only 30.76% of bozales.
  • Prices for bozales were notably higher than in Quito: individuals aged 40–50 reached 400–700 pesos in Guayaquil versus 200–400 pesos in Quito, which the author attributes to valued shipyard skills (e.g., Andrés Morán de Butrón paid 600 pesos each for a crew of carpenters and a hachero in 1635; mulatos reached 800 pesos).
  • Population figures cited: 333 Black slaves in Guayaquil in 1605; a 1604–1605 description counted 340 Black individuals (216 male slaves, 117 female slaves, 7 free), making up 44.52% of the urban population; from 1780 to 1825 slaves rose from 1,500 to 2,200 while their share of the urban population fell from 7% to 3%.
  • Manumission appears more frequent than in Quito, especially for low-profit slaves, and took forms including free *pro Deo* grants, onerous payments (e.g., 700 pesos for the mulata Gabriela in 1653), conditional manumission, and even a trade (friars freed Isabel del Rosario in exchange for the "san Pablo" altarpiece).

Methods

  • Design: archival social history based on notarial protocols (Archivo Histórico del Guayas, cited as EP/P series) plus cabildo acts, royal cédulas, and contemporary accounts (Ulloa, Alsedo y Herrera, Requena, Dampier).
  • Sample: a corpus of 71 enslaved individuals sold between 1628 and 1678, with no more than 50 individual prices found; the study is explicitly comparative with the author's earlier work on Quito.
  • Analysis: quantitative tabulation of origins, ages, prices, and payment terms (Cuadros 12–18), combined with qualitative case analysis of individual deeds, testaments, and manumission records.

Limitations

  • Stated: the documentation's condition, due to time and the humid climate, makes reading very difficult; group sales (especially of bozales) do not always allow a rational average price; prices of mothers included their children up to age three, which slightly alters the proposed mean prices.
  • Stated: the small number of *criollos* makes it "azaroso" to draw categorical conclusions about sex ratios among them.
  • Evident from the text: the price series rests on fewer than 50 individual prices over a 50-year window, and the author repeatedly notes gaps (e.g., illegible passages, missing data on ship crews' value), so several conclusions are framed as suppositions rather than demonstrated findings.

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    El corpus de 71 individuos vendidos entre 1628 y 1678 es representativo del mercado de compra-venta de esclavos en Guayaquil en ese período.

    “El corpus6 que utilizaremos para estudiar la compra-venta de esclavos en Guayaquil se compone de 71 individuos, entre niños y personas mayores, con 52 bozales y tan sólo 19 criollos, vendidos entre 1628 y 16787.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Las categorías étnicas y de origen registradas en las escrituras notariales (bozal, criollo, angola, bantú, etc.) indican de manera fiable la procedencia o el estatus de los esclavos.

    “De los 52 elementos apuntados en las escrituras, 34 pertenecían a la zona bantú, lo que da un 65,38 %, porcentaje levemente superior al de Quito.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Los precios y categorías de esclavos registrados en Guayaquil son comparables con los de Quito pese a las diferencias de contexto.

    “se trata del precio particularmente alto de los bozales en comparación con su estimación en la capital de la Audiencia.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Los registros notariales conservados permiten contar de manera completa los casos de pago en dos tiempos en el lapso estudiado.

    “En el lapso estudiado sólo se encuentran dos casos, en 10-10-1637, con el segundo pago al cabo de menos de un mes, y en 21-2-1632, con un plazo de 10 meses para el saldo de la deuda.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Cuando los documentos no indican las ocupaciones de los esclavos, puede inferirse que los varones se dedicaban al puerto y astilleros y las mujeres al servicio doméstico o jornales.

    “El documento no suministra ningún dato en cuanto a sus ocupaciones, relacionadas a no caber duda con las actividades económicas de la ciudad: puerto y astilleros para los varones, servicio doméstico y jornales para las hembras.”
  • The authors state this as an assumption.

    Los frailes predicadores se interesaron por el endoctrinamiento de los negros, libres y esclavos, bozales y ladinos, que vivían en Guayaquil.

    “de modo que supondremos que se interesaron por el endoctrinamiento de los negros, libres y esclavos, bozales y ladinos, que vivían en la ciudad.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Los frailes predicadores fueron los primeros en instalarse en Guayaquil.

    “Los frailes predicadores fueron los primeros en instalarse en Guayaquil”
  • The authors state this as an assumption.

    Ciertos esclavos servían de vaqueros en las estancias de ganado de reses, de caballos y de muías.

    “Es de suponer que ciertos esclavos servían de vaqueros en las estancias de ganado de reses, de caballos y de muías.”
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  1. Tardieu, J.-P. (2006). El negro en la Real Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador). Lima: Institut français d’études andines, Centro Cultural Abya-Yala, Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI). https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ifea.4616 · DOI · Paper page
  2. Tardieu, Jean-Pierre. El negro en la Real Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador). Institut français d’études andines, Centro Cultural Abya-Yala, Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), 2006, https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ifea.4616. · DOI · Paper page

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Authors
Tardieu, J.-P.
Venue
El negro en la Real Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador)
Published
2006
Pages
227-266
OpenAlex
W1822174342
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0
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book chapter
Language
es
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  • Institut français d’études andines eBooks (publishedVersion)
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Colonial Brazil
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Latin American history and culture
Keywords
enslaved Africans, slavery, Guayaquil, colonial Ecuador, 17th century, slave trade, indigenous peoples, coastal economy

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