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The article discusses textile trade history between America and Eastern Andalusia at a crucial period in which the port of Cádiz became the chief city of trade with the Americas. Textiles were exported from Spain to the Americas in exchange for freshly mined silver, in one of the foremost aspects of Spanish trade with the new world that overtook even agricultural exports. Andalusia's advantageous position in regards to the manufacture and trade of textiles was effectively ended with the invasion of Napoleon and colonial emancipation.