The Asiento de Negros and International Law.

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    • Subject Terms:
      SPAIN; UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      This article discusses the influence that the Spanish legal tradition of the asiento de negros, which gave permission from the Spanish government to other countries to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, had on international law. As part of a peace treaty between Spain and Great Britain signed in 1713, the Spanish colonies were assured a number of African slaves supplied by Great Britain for a period of thirty years.