António Fernandes de Elvas
António Fernandes de Elvas (died 1623) was a Portuguese-born merchant, including investor in pepper tax farm and Asian spices. Fernandes de Elvas and his family were Marranos; that is to say Sephardic Jews who conformed outwardly as "Cristão-Novo" due to the demands of the Portuguese Crown but privately continued to adhere to Judaism. He was contracted by the Spanish Empire with an official "asiento" to provide their colonies in the Spanish Americas with African slaves from 27 September 1615 to 1 April 1623. During this time, he was the "Contratodore" (monopolist trader) for the Atlantic slave trade in Portuguese West Africa: Angola, Cape Verde and Guinea. He was succeeded in his position as monopolist for providing slaves to the Spanish by a fellow Marrano, Manuel Rodrigues Lamego.
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Cristão-Novo
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Spanish Empire
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asiento
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Spanish Americas
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Atlantic slave trade
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Angola
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Cape Verde
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Guinea
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Manuel Rodrigues Lamego
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António Fernandes de Elvas
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1623-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1623
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1615-09-27T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
27 September 1615
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1623-04-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1 April 1623
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religion