America’s Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2019-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

An illustration depicting Portuguese traders in Africa

A depiction of slaves in Brazil

Perhaps inevitably, a regional rivalry developed between Spain and Portugal as the Portuguese began to establish a colony in Brazil and push its boundaries southwards. After the conquest of the Incas in the 1530s, the Portuguese threat prompted the authorization of a second expedition, commanded this time by Pedro de Mendoza with a force of some 1,500 men. The party arrived at the mouth of the Río de la Plata in 1536, and there Mendoza founded the settlement of Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre. This was the basis of the future city of Buenos Aires, but its establishment was not without resistance from surrounding tribes. Members of the Querandí people, already familiar with Spanish methods and tactics of war from earlier encounters among the Incas, responded with violence, and in 1537, a year after its founding, Mendoza ordered the settlement abandoned. Some survivors broke ranks and sought succour among the Guaraní further upstream on the banks of the Paraná River. These early settlers assimilated reasonably easily with the Guaraní, founding the settlement of Asunción, which later became the capital city of Paraguay.

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