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Human trafficking forged connections across the Indo-Pacific world. This chapter discusses Consulta 44 that weighs in on the legality of the trafficking of an enslaved man named “Matheo Cafre” in Manila. The case illuminates the seventeenth-century slave trade between the Philippines and South Asia, the trans-Oceanic networks of enslaved people, and the strategies that they used to resist slavery and its specific conditions in global Iberian empires. Matheo, an enslaved man with African ancestry, was married to a woman who lived in what is today the state of Tamil Nadu. He rejected his Indian-born Portuguese enslavers’ attempt to sell him to Manila. Like his counterparts in Asia and Latin America, Matheo understood the importance of his marital status for Catholic authorities, which also resonated with Juan de Paz. This case allows the reader to consider Matheo’s implied or explicit strategies to take control of the conditions of his enslavement vis-à-vis his Iberian enslavers.

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Slavery between the Indian Ocean World and the Spanish Pacific

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    2025年

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  • Kristie Patricia Flannery,
  • Norah L. A. Gharala

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Human trafficking forged connections across the Indo-Pacific world. This chapter discusses Consulta 44 that weighs in on the legality of the trafficking of an enslaved man named “Matheo Cafre” in Manila. The case illuminates the seventeenth-century slave trade between the Philippines and South Asia, the trans-Oceanic networks of enslaved people, and the strategies that they used to resist slavery and its specific conditions in global Iberian empires. Matheo, an enslaved man with African ancestry, was married to a woman who lived in what is today the state of Tamil Nadu. He rejected his Indian-born Portuguese enslavers’ attempt to sell him to Manila. Like his counterparts in Asia and Latin America, Matheo understood the importance of his marital status for Catholic authorities, which also resonated with Juan de Paz. This case allows the reader to consider Matheo’s implied or explicit strategies to take control of the conditions of his enslavement vis-à-vis his Iberian enslavers.