I know that during the early years of colonization, the Americas were kept as a Castilian preserve. Not even the Aragonese residents of the Union of Two Crowns, much less the Italians, Netherlanders and Austrians of the Habsburg ensemble were allowed in.
When was this policy relaxed so that Catalans of Aragon and other subjects of the Spanish Crown were allowed to migrate and trade in Spanish America on a legally equal basis to Castillians?
Was this a change of the so-called "Bourbon reforms"?
When was this policy relaxed so that Catalans of Aragon and other subjects of the Spanish Crown were allowed to migrate and trade in Spanish America on a legally equal basis to Castillians?
Was this a change of the so-called "Bourbon reforms"?