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San Javier, Conde de. See Pacheco Mijares, Juan Jacinto

San Matheo (valley), 100

San Sebastián (Spain), 4

San Sebastián de los Reyes, 14 , 26 , 45 , 49 , 51 , 53 , 68 , 145

Santa Lucía (valley), 88 -90, 95 -99, 116 , 121

Santo Domingo, 5 , 32 , 41 , 54 , 111 -112, 118 . See also Audiencia, Santo Domingo

Seven Years War, 241

Seville, 21 , 33 , 39 -40, 55 , 57 , 78

Sierpe, Gil de la, 49

Slavery:

African, 3 -4, 6 ;

control of Tuy slaves, 139 -140;

domestic, 72 -73, 79 , 89 -90;

and elite status, 128 , 138 ;

impact of declining prices on, 186 , 188 ;

Indian, 1 -2, 51 ;

Liendo-Rodríguez Santos slaves, 88 -90, 93 -96;

and morenos libres , 110 -112;

Piñate-Caldera slaves, 130 -131;

Rodríguez Santos-Escovedo slaves, 79 , 84 , 87 , 93 ;

transition from encomienda labor to, 43 , 56 -58, 64 -65, 67 -70.

See also Indians; Slave trade

Slave trade, 6 , 7 , 45 ;

from Curaçao, 64 , 71 ;

early slave imports, 57 -58, 97 ;

English asiento, 9 , 124 -139 passim, 158 -159, 163 , 188 ;

French asiento, 111 -112;

Portuguese asiento, 109 , 111

Smuggling:

tobacco, 34 -35;

cacao, 5 , 124 , 156 , 169 -170, 186 , 327 n. 23;

and tenientes de justicia , 139 -142.

See also Curaçao; Dutch traders

Soconusco, 47

Sojo Palacios. See Palacios

Solano y Bote, José, 211 , 242 -243

Sosa Betancourt, Manuel de, 146 -147, 166

Soto Ibarra, Isabel, 192

South Sea Company. See Slave trade, English asiento

Spanish Succession, War of the, 198

Spira, Georg, 2

Sugar, 66 , 68 -70, 100 , 190 ;

trapiches in Caracas province (1752), 204