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    The Asiento de Negros (lit. 'agreement of blacks') was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide enslaved...
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    083. The town of Real de Asientos serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Asientos. Real de Asientos was declared a Pueblo Mágico...
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    debt. To generate income, in 1713 the company was granted a monopoly (the Asiento de Negros) to supply African slaves to the islands in the "South Seas"...
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    the Asiento de Negros; as historian G.M. Trevelyan noted: "The finances of the country were based in May 1711 on the assumption that the Asiento, or monopoly...
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    The War of Jenkins' Ear (Spanish: Guerra del Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement') was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain...
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  • 16°49′00″S 67°33′00″W / 16.81667°S 67.55000°W / -16.81667; -67.55000 Asiento Araca is a town in Cairoma Municipality, Loayza Province of La Paz Department...
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  • Real Asiento de Inglaterra or Real Asiento de la Gran Bretaña was the name in Spanish of the subsidiary in Buenos Aires of the South Sea Company. In 1713...
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  • El Asiento is a ward (consejo popular) and village in the municipality of Chambas, Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba. In the village and nearby CNA (Non-Agricultural...
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  • Los Asientos is a corregimiento in Pedasí District, Los Santos Province, Panama with a population of 755 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 1,007;...
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  • government. Previously the Asiento had been held by the Portuguese and by Genoese, Dutch and French slave traders. The Asiento specified that the British...
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