Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan

Lúcio de Sousa is an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Asian Studies at University of Oporto (Oporto, Portugal). He was a book winner by the Macao Foundation, the Social Science in China Press and the GuangDong Social Sciences Association (2013).

Winner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019“With his assiduous tracking and identification of the humans trafficked across the Eastern hemisphere, the author has produced a new and slightly provocative standard that is unlikely to be easily duplicated, meanwhile also unwittingly calling attention to the need for even deeper research on some of the circuits of the uglier side of the slave trade, as seen with the Indian Ocean littoral. All in all, this is a commendable work and a great resource for students of medieval Japanese history and Portuguese “expansion.”” – Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74/2 (2019)"With no significant primary sources specifically on the Portuguese slave trade, the author has clearly made a prodigious effort to comb through documents at archives in Macau, India, Portugal, Italy, and Spain for references to Asian slaves and to compile an important account of a significant part of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The result is a comprehensive study in English on a topic that has received little attention but will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." – Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound, in: The Journal of Japanese Studies 47/1 (2021)

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroductionTerminologyThe Book’s Structure1 The Chinese StageThe Chinese StageMacao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest EvidenceExamples from the Chinese Diaspora2 The Japanese StageThe Japanese StageThe Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in MacaoToyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves3 The Korean StageThe Macao Ship and Korean SlavesEuropean Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave TradeThe End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the “Nau De Macau” and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600–14)The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in JapanCaptureOther Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the PortugueseSaleTransportationThe Society of Jesus and the Ballot SystemPrice and Number of Slaves6 Case Studies: Crossing DiasporasThe Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish ConversosThe Japanese slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish ConversosThe 1640 Delegation and the “Korean” Miguel CarvalhoFrom Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz7 The Iberian World and the Japanese DiasporaMacaoThe PhilippinesGoaJapanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in AsiaMexicoPeruArgentinaPortugalSpain8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian LegislationFrom the Reconquista toJapanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550–80Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580–1600ConclusionBibliographyIndex