"Sujeto a servidumbre". La estructura demográfica de los esclavos en la villa de San Gil, 1694-1713

Abstract

The central proposal of this article consists in analysing of the buying and selling of slavers corresponding to the ville of San Gil and its jurisdiction during the transition of the century XVII to XVIII in order to identify the demographic elements more important of the slave population. Thus, studied transactions suggest the predominance of a person's business, the relative superiority masculine, the distinguished negotiation of slaves in productive and reproductive ages, the supremacy of the afro-half-caste in the local salver market, thus so, the introduction of black slave manpower since the provinces of the North of the New Granada and West of Venezuela mainly.