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The sale of the " asientos " produced a consider- able revenue, and though a certain limita- tion was imposed thereby on the number of slaves who could be imported, still it systematized the evil, and likewise served to develop greater cruelty and oppression by giving rise to a contraband trade. The first contract was sold to the Genoese in 15 17; two Germans afterwards obtained one under the condition of intro- ducing 4000 slaves in four years. There is a record of various other contracts 120 ...iETHIOPUM SERVUS. previous to the time of St. Peter Claver. During a great part of his ministry the Portuguese enjoyed all these contracts ; thus from 1595 to 1639 they possessed the sole monopoly. In 1701 we find mention of a contract with the French Royal Guinea Company, for the importation of 4800 every year. One article of this contract, which sounds somewhat ominous, is that the Company was bound to pay duty on the negroes who died after landing, whether they had been sold or not. This might have constituted a great temptation to the traders to throw sick ones overboard before arriving.
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