New light on Lope Vázquez Pestaña: pioneer merchant, unexpected informant and experienced captain of the Río de la Plata (late 16th century - early 17th century)
Through the analysis of travel accounts, protocol acts, official correspondence, information on merits and services and other documents, new light is shed to complete the biography of the Portuguese Lope Vázquez Pestaña, who is considered the first slave trader of the Río de la Plata. Likewise, his...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2024
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| Sumario: | Through the analysis of travel accounts, protocol acts, official correspondence, information on merits and services and other documents, new light is shed to complete the biography of the Portuguese Lope Vázquez Pestaña, who is considered the first slave trader of the Río de la Plata. Likewise, his presence is identified in the travel account collection published by Richard Hakluyt, where he appears as an informant on the fate of different English expeditions to Spanish America.
The aim is thus, based on a specific case, to contribute to the study of the Portuguese presence in the region of the viceroyalty of Peru at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, and to the identification of the sources that Hakluyt could have used and edited to make his collection. |
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