"Asiento Treaty" (26 March 1713). The Treaty of Utrecht ratified the "Asiento de negros", by which the South Sea Company gained the right to send Negro slaves to the Spanish colonies in the Americas for a period of thirty years. Collection of the Treaties of Peace, Alliance, Commerce adjusted by the Crown of Spain with the Foreign Powers (Colección de los Tratados de Paz, Alianza, Comercio ajustados por la Corona de España con las Potencias Extranjeras). Volume I. Madrid, 1796. Historical Military Library of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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