Over the past three decades, scholars have reevaluated and expanded our understanding of early modern interactions by emphasizing the interconnectedness between people around the globe. New historiography has shown the intrinsically cosmopolitan character of imperial subjects, and the pervasiveness of long-distance travel across continents in early modernity. Indeed, scholars affirm that one main feature of the early modern world was the unprecedented and fluid movement of people, objects, and knowledge. In the Iberian world, scholars explored how imperial subjects experienced mobility and how they employed movement as a tool to negotiate identity and to seek freedom, justice, reward, and resistance. Despite its vast imperial geography, the Spanish empire was a highly interconnected space where people freely navigated and traversed territorial boundaries for diverse objectives. Built upon this rich historiography, this panel explores the interconnectivity of the Iberian world with an emphasis on the global mobility of Iberian subjects across the Pacific-Atlantic. Diego Luis explores the mobility of free and enslaved Blacks in seventeenth-century Manila. He reveals that Manila's extensive Black population critically shaped urban, civic and economic life. His work also shows how Black subjects successfully established commercial activities and had a significant degree of political influence in their role as intermediaries and militiamen. Héctor Linares studies the transatlantic journey of Alonso Atahualpa, a descendant of the last Inca ruler. In 1582, Alonso departed his hometown of Quito and traversed the Atlantic for the Spanish royal court in his quest for redress and reward from King Philip II. Linares underscores the fluidity of Andean transatlantic mobility and shows that, beyond risking their lives to increase their wealth, Inca elites pursued honorific grants that would elevate their lineages. Juan Manuel Ramirez explores Afro-descended womens´ strategic use of rhetorical language in legal cases presented at the Court of Mexico, the Casa de la Contratación in Seville, and the Ecclesiastical Court of Lima. He nuances their mobility, demonstrating that women consolidated their personal circumstances of transit in collective narratives that amplified individuals´ voices within legal discourse. Finally, Sarah Owens shows how the cult of saints, holy women, and nuns aided Iberian travelers both spiritually and physically during their global journeys throughout the Spanish empire. Following the case of Sor Jerónima de Asunción, Owens shows how nuns experienced transoceanic mobility and subsequently built communities that supported and uplifted one another. Together, these four papers highlight the intersection of mobility, gender, religion, race, and authority in the Spanish Empire, revealing how ordinary vassals employed and experienced mobility in the interconnected Iberian world of early modernity.