The Real Treasury of Lima and the taxations of Enslaveds and Afrodescendents. Mid-Seventeenth - Early Eighteenth Century

Abstract

In America, and in Peru particularly, the men and women of African origin, whether slave or free, became a pretext for taxation by the Spanish Crown, as a marchandise, as an instrument of production and even as a human being endowed with compensatory pretensions, in order to solve not a few problems, the most of them however related to economic and military defense against the greed of foreign countries. Hence the emergency of multiple contradictions from the middle of the 17th century to the first decades of the 18th century that the advisors of the viceroys of Lima tried to reduce, not without many difficulties, sometimes resorting to projects of low profitability and even unrealizable.