Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction 1 -- 1 The Chinese Stage 11 -- 2 The Japanese Stage 48 -- 3 The Korean Stage 90 -- 4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade 180 -- 5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan 260 -- 6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas 303 -- 7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora 361 -- 8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation 478 -- Conclusion 539 -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

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In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves Lucio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan. Using the Portuguese mercantile networks, de Sousa reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.