Real Asiento de Inglaterra or Real Asiento de la Gran Bretaña, was the name in Spanish of the subsidiary in Buenos Aires of the

South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for the encouragement of the Fishery) was a British joint-stock company founded in Ja ...

. In 1713, the British Crown established the ''

asiento The () was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide African slaves to colonies in the Spanish Americas. The Spanish Empire rarely engaged in the trans-Atlantic slave trade directly from Afr ...

'' in the current Plaza San Martín, neighborhood of Retiro.

History

After the

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granted the monopoly of the slave trade to

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. The South Sea Company was established in Buenos Aires around 1713, during the reign of

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and Anne of Great Britain. The treaty of 1713 included the annual introduction of 1,200 slaves to the

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, mostly to be sent to the cities of

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and

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. The main directory of the Royal Seat of Great Britain arrived in the Río de la Plata on board the warship H.M.S. Warwick in September 1715. In 1718, Thomas Dover, president of the Real Asiento de Inglaterra of Buenos Aires, acquired the luxurious residence belonging to Miguel de Riglos. This residence had originally been owned by the Governor of Buenos Aires

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. After acquiring that property, Riglos rent it to the Compagnie Royale de Guinée. Several families belonging to the Buenos Aires society maintained commercial ties (sale of leather) with the Real Asiento de Inglaterra as

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and Dionisio Chiclana Navarro. Joseph de Esparza,

Miguel Gerónimo de Esparza Miguel Gerónimo de Esparza (1678–1767) was a Spanish nobleman, who served during the Viceroyalty of Peru as Lawyer, Attorney and Regidor of Buenos Aires. He also served as Captain of the Militias and acting Mayor of Buenos Aires for several pe ...

and

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were some of the authorities of the Spanish government in charge of the control of the activities of the South Sea Company in Buenos Aires. The South Sea Company operated in the

Río de la Plata The Río de la Plata (, "river of silver"), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and f ...

until 1739, year in which Spain declared war against Great Britain. In those lands was built the

Plaza de Toros del Retiro Plaza de Toros del Retiro was a bullfighting coliseum of Buenos Aires of the 19th century. This Arena was established in the city during the last years of the colonial period. History The Plaza de Toros del Retiro was made by the architect F ...

in 1800. In the ships of Real Asiento de Inglaterra arrived at the Río de la Plata,

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and

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, pioneers in the practice of medicine of colonial Buenos Aires.

Gallery

File:Miguel de Riglos, Asiento de Inglaterra 4.jpg, sale of Miguel de Riglos to the company in 1718 File:Asiento Inglaterra, venta cueros.jpg, record of

leather Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and ho ...

s acquired by the Asiento de Inglaterra File:Juan Cabral de Melo, Asiento Inglaterra.jpg, Leather debt of Juan Cabral de Melo to Company in 1718 File:Asiento de Gran Bretaña.jpg, appointment of proxies of the board in 1718 File:Regidores, Asiento de Inglaterra.jpg, registry of sales of the deputies of the Cabildo and the Asiento File:Thomas Dover, firma.jpg, signature of Thomas Dover, president of the company File:Regidores, Asiento de Inglaterra 4.jpg, record with signature of the main members of the Asiento

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