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The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slavery: a Forgotten History

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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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  • Place of activity Firenze
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  • Cambini Francesco e Bernardo

    1461–1469
    Slave owner Finance and Banking, Trade
    Origin
    Firenze
    Place of activity
    Firenze

    Owners of two enslaved African women, Isabell and Giovanna, who arrived in Livorni from Lisbon in 1461 and 1469 respectively through Giovanni Guidetti, agent of the Cambini bank in Lisbon.

  • Campana Bastiano

    1547
    Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Firenze
    Place of activity
    Firenze

    Agent and factor of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici. In 1547 he was sent to Portugal to purchase for the duke goods, animals and enslaved people destined for the court of Florence. His diary contains the accounts of those purchases.

  • Casavecchia Pellegrino

    1478
    Slave owner Finance and Banking, Trade
    Place of activity
    Firenze

    An employee of the Cambini, together with his brother Chiaro he purchased an enslaved African woman, Luza, who had come to Livorno from Lisbon through Bartolomeo Marchionni.

  • Mucini Stefano

    1464
    Slave owner Trade
    Origin
    Firenze
    Place of activity
    Firenze

    He bought an enslaved African woman from Giovanni Guidetti, who had brought her to Livorno from Lisbon.

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