Los límites de la tolerancia: comerciantes extranjeros y los recursos contra una orden de expulsión

Biersack, Martin (2021): Los límites de la tolerancia: comerciantes extranjeros y los recursos contra una orden de expulsión. In: Magallanica-Revista De Historia Moderna, Bd. 8, Nr. 15: S. 304-334

Abstract

Foreign merchants were legally excluded from trade with Spanish America. However, their presence and activity were largely tolerated by the colonial oligarchies and by the colonial administration in the Indies. The best way to avoid the menace of expulsion was the local integration via marriage. In some cases, merchants who married to Spanish women were able to formalize their integration when they obtained a letter of naturalization. With the legal instrument of the appeal this article presents another mechanism which was practiced to avoid expulsion. Four cases of foreign merchants active in Chile (Juan Albano Pereira), Lima (Joseph Valois), Havana (Felipe Allwood) and Buenos Aires (Joaquin Dacosta Bastos) are analyzed to conclude that finally the practice of the appeal was an instrument controlled by the governors and viceroys. It allowed them to adapt the restrictive laws to de facto tolerate those merchants whose presence, due to their visibility, could not be dissimulated, nor could it be tolerated de jure because they were foreigners and not married to Spanish women.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 900 Geschichte
• ISSN: 2422-779X
• Sprache: Spanisch