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People from the Italian peninsula involved in the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, 15th–19th centuries. Search by name or filter by role, place, network and period.
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Barbaria Giorgio
1776–1800 (part of century)In the last quarter of the eighteenth century he was the most important producer and merchant of glass beads in Venice and a member of the guild of the Perleri. His business combined large-scale production and trade, with shipments to the western (Ponente) ports. His beads were destined above all for large merchant houses involved in the Atlantic slave trade, which used them as goods of exchange on the African coasts. Decisive for his success was his relationship with the firm Juvalta, Frisoni & Giese of Lisbon, active in Atlantic trade (colonial goods, ivory, enslaved people) and with partners in Luanda. His case shows the link between Venetian manufacturing and the circuits of the slave trade.
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Barbaria Giovanni
c. 1781–1800Brother of Giorgio Barbaria and like him a manufacturer and merchant, in the last decades of the eighteenth century he shipped glass beads to the western (Ponente) ports.
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Basi Francisco
1764–1804The Buenos Aires census of 1804 records that he arrived in the city in 1764. He was a miller and owned two enslaved people and 2,000 pesos in silver. He lived in a rented house.
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Owner of an inn in central Lima, he left an estate comprising 8,000 pesos in cash, jewellery, enslaved people, and the inn's utensils and furnishings.
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Granea Francisco
1827He was a pasta maker and owned three enslaved people. He lived with Vicenta Rissotto, an Italian woman from Montevideo, and their seven children, who were aged between 14 and 18.
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He owned a chocolate shop in which three enslaved people worked.
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Moro Angel
1827He owned one enslaved person alongside his partner, Ángel María Pensay. They both worked in partnership with Francisco Granea.
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Olivari José
1807–1827A pasta maker, married to a woman from Montevideo, he had four children and owned four enslaved people.
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Pallavacino (Palavecino) Pedro
1770–1799His will includes an estate of 44,109.7 pesos: four houses in the city centre, a bakery with three grain mills, six enslaved people and 17,000 pesos in cash.
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Pensay Angel Maria
1827He owned an enslaved person alongside his partner, Ángel Moro. They both worked in partnership with Francisco Granea.