Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: Subjected to Slavery: Africans and Their Descendants in the Hispanic Caribbean contributes to the study of Atlantic history in which the enslavement of millions of Africans was one of the main factors that generated and drove the development of the modern world. The formation of trade networks, trading companies and individual businesses contributed to connecting worlds and making them interdependent. Along with the goods, individuals and products, traveled ideas and traditions that were weaving the Atlantic history. In it, enslavement, the enslaved and people of African descent were and are prominent parts, as shown by their present legacy of American cultures. These studies of the work are added to the research that, from different countries, projects, research groups and approaches, are being carried out on a subject as rich, diverse and complex as Atlantic slavery. The temporal space covered by the chapters extends in time as did the slave trade and the slave system. The same is true of the territories affected by this phenomenon. Its cartography is a long shadow that spreads across the Atlantic world from the 16th century to the last decades of the 19th century. Different actors and points of Africa, Europe and America emerge as protagonists of the subjugation, trade and enslavement of more than twelve and a half million Africans.