Chapter 4 provides the first systematic study of the Puebla slave market for the seventeenth century (1600-1700). Based on thousands of bills of slave purchase, I demonstrate how Portuguese slaving intermediaries (encomenderos de negros) expedited the slave trade between Nueva Veracruz, Puebla and Mexico City in the 1616-1639 period. The activities of these men and their extension of credit streamlined the forced arrival of thousands of West Central African captives to Puebla. Based on notarial data, the Puebla market was strongly linked to Luanda (Angola), but also to Cartagena de Indias (modern-day Colombia). This examination also provides some of the first Puebla-specific information on the transpacific slave trade by way of the Manila Galleon. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates that Poblanos slaveholders never satiated their demand for enslaved servants. A number of failed initiatives doomed the transatlantic and intra-Caribbean slave trade after 1640. However, during the 1680s, the local market recovered to high levels mostly based on the sales of American-born slaves and a smaller group of Lower Guinean captives (Arara, Mina, Popo, etc.).