Alejandro Salamanca Rodríguez is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute of Florence and an associate researcher at the Prize Papers Project. His work focuses on migration and social history in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

• Introduction Microhistory Migration history Migration in the early modern Atlantic Letters as a Source for the History of Migration The Agata’s Letters in Context Structure and sources Chapter 1: The Master and his Family Sanlúcar de Barrameda: A City of Migrants Life Before the AgataBecoming ShipmasterLetters from Mexico News From the Family Letters to Spain Chapter 2: The Agata’s Journey From Zaandam to Spain A Dutch Ship in Cádiz War, Privateering and Trade The charterersPreparations for the Journey From Cádiz to New Spain The Agata in Veracruz Missing Havana The Capture and the Captors Chapter 3: The Agata’s Migrants Mobile Workers A Multinational CrewLife on the Agata Regular and Irregular Migration in the Spanish Atlantic Blending in: Citizenship and Belonging in New Spain A Free Black in Mexico Return Passengers: from Batavia to Veracruz Chapter 4: The Agata’s Letters Letters to Migrants Sent From Sanlúcar From Josepha Croquer in Sanlúcar de Barrameda to Her Nephew AntonioFrom Juan Franchois in Seville to Juan de Espinosa y Eliguisamon Letters From Migrants in Mexico to Sanlúcar From Joseph de Vargas to a Woman Named Catalina From Joseph de Ribas to His Wife Rosa Francisca de Ribas y Aguilar From Bartholome Rodríguez de Reina to His Relative Roman de Bargas Two Letters of Recommendation Chapter 5: A Father and a Son A Commercial Agent and His Son Letters and Themes From Juan to Ángela Vallejo From Juan to Bernardo Fallon The Valderrama Family From Juan to Luis From Juan to Pantaleona From Joaquín to Pantaleona From Joaquín to Antonio and Luis Conclusion Bibliography