The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves

Winner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019

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.

Lúcio de Sousa is an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Asian Studies at University of Oporto (Oporto, Portugal). He was a book winner by the Macao Foundation, the Social Science in China Press and the GuangDong Social Sciences Association (2013).