?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(BRITISH ACT of PARLIAMENT.) An Act to Enable the South Sea Company . . . to take in Negroes . . . and to Deliver the Same at Buenos Ayres [caption title]. Folio, disbound. London, 1727
As part of the Assiento with Spain following the Treaty of Utrecht, the British had the exclusive right to provide the Spanish colonies in the Americas with 4800 slaves per year. According to the present act, the South Sea Company, which was facing financial collapse, was granted the right to take slaves from the island of Madagascar to Buenos Aires.
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