Thread by @Silpayamanant

When you're researching 16th c. music prebends of Olivença and the Diocese of Ceuta and get distracted by mention of Japanese slaves in Portugal and start going down that rabbit hole... 😬

brill.com/view/title/379…

This helps give a lot of context to the Mardijkers of Batavia, many of whom were descended from Portuguese slaves and went on to form slave orchestras in Batavia.

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1373321576138092545

And this all started with researching Cante Alentejano, a Portuguese folk polyphony style that dates back to the 1500s by some accounts.

https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1376551676442783744

"A rare document has been found that records the transport of Japanese people to Mexico as slaves in the late 16th century, the first documentation of Japanese people crossing the Pacific Ocean."
asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+N…

"Slavery in Medieval Japan" - Thomas Nelson
jstor.org/stable/25066328

"The Portuguese had taken many slaves from Japan to Portugal, and since Goa was then the capital of the Portuguese empire in Asia, a good number had ended up in Goa."

amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=3496

Don't know how much this is the case, but also not entirely surprising.
asianmoviepulse.com/2020/11/interv…

“SLAVE TRADE OF JAPANESE BY THE PORTUGUESE”
skdesu.com/en/japanese-po…