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The 1713 Asiento: Britain's License to Traffic in Human Beings
In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht ended the War of the Spanish Succession and granted Britain a unique prize: the asiento, a monopoly contract to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's American colonies. This episode follows the asiento's journey from a Portuguese monopoly through Genoese, Dutch, and French hands to its final, most lucrative incarnation under the British South Sea Company. We trace the political maneuverings in Madrid and London, the staggering profits that fueled the South Sea Bubble, and the human cost calculated in the 144,000 enslaved people delivered over three…
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