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The ''Asiento'' was the permission given by the Spanish government to other countries to sell people as slaves to the Spanish colonies, between the years 1543 and 1834. In British history, it usually refers to the contract between Spain and Great Britain created in 1713 that dealt with the supply of African slaves for the Spanish territories in the Americas. The British government passed its rights to the South Sea Company. ==Meaning== The general meaning of ''asiento'' (from the Spanish verb ''sentar'', to sit, and this from Latin ''sedere'') in Spanish is "consent" or "settlement, establishment". In a commercial context it means "contract, trading agreement." In the words of Georges Scelle, it is "a term in Spanish public law which designates every contract made for the purpose of public utility…between the Spanish government and private individuals."〔Johannes Postma, ''The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815'' (Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 29.〕 In Habsburg Spain, asientos were a basic method of financing state expenditures: "Borrowing took two forms – long-term debt in the form of perpetual bonds (''juros''), and short-term loan contracts provided by bankers (''asientos''). Many asientos were eventually converted or refinanced through ''juros''."〔Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth, "(Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Phillip II, 1566-1598 )", p. 6.〕 Through an asiento, a trade relationship was established whereby a set of traders was given a monopoly over that route and/or product. In this case, it refers specifically to a monopoly over the trade of slaves between Africa and the Americas. According to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', this asiento existed between the early 16th and mid-18th century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asiento」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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