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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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Imperiale Carlo
c. 1650–1667A member of the Genoese old nobility, in the 1640s he married Giovanna Grillo, sister of Domenico. He was Domenico Grillo's ally in the Castilian wool trade and in the mobilisation of financial resources on a continental scale and, until his death, which occurred around 1667-1668, was his trusted agent in Genoa for the business of the asiento.
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Salvago Benedetto
1401–1500 (century)A fifteenth-century member of the Salvago merchant family, he owned an enslaved person engaged in domestic service. He appears with his relative Brunetto Salvago in the notarial records because he provided for the manumission of that person and assigned that person a share of the inheritance.
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Salvago Brunetto
1401–1500 (century)A fifteenth-century member of the Salvago merchant family, he owned an enslaved person employed in domestic service. He appears with his relative Benedetto Salvago in the notarial records because he provided for the manumission of that person and assigned that person a share of the inheritance.
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Salvago Carlo
1639–1659On the death of his brother Nicola, in 1639, he inherited all his property and sought to obtain further licences to bring enslaved people to Buenos Aires. With his brother Enrico he used the Regia Camera of Milan to exchange the silver he brought from the Americas, and he entered the wool trade between Spain and Genoa.
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Salvago Tomasso
1450A member of the Salvago merchant family, on 28 April 1450 he purchased an enslaved person in Genoa from Geronimo de Carmarino, as documented by a notarial deed. He is a different person from the Tomasso Salvago active as factor for Ansaldo Grimaldi in Seville in 1530.
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Sauli Franceso Maria
1620–1699Francesco Maria Sauli operated in Genoa on behalf of Grillo and Lomellini: he received and sold the goods arriving from Cádiz, procured credit and insured the asiento ships. His activity, however, went far beyond this: he invested in Roman and Neapolitan public debt, traded in grain, silver, silk textiles and marble, and invested in the Genoese shipyards. In 1666 he supplied Grillo and Lomellini with galleons of 500 tons each for the slave trade. In 1667 he procured for Feroni, in Amsterdam, funds to buy enslaved people for the asiento. At the beginning of 1668 Grillo asked him to insure the ship Santa Cruz, of 500 tons, with 34 guns and a crew of 70 men, commanded by Giovanni Francesco Garibaldo: the ship was to sail from Cádiz to Angola, load enslaved people there and carry them to Curaçao, Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico, perhaps also to Cumaná and Caracas, and then transport silver from Cádiz to Genoa. In March 1668 Sauli won the tender for the insurance.