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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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Bacarreza Antonio
1763–1790Born in Genoa, son of Josef Bacarreza and Angela Conforte (AAL, Licencias matrimoniales, 1773). Between 1771 and 1787 he is documented in six transactions involving enslaved people.
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Bacarreza Cayetano
1778–1830Born in Genoa, the legitimate son of Jose Bacarreza and Lucía Conforte (AGN, Protocolo 60, 1830). In his will he declared that he owned four enslaved people. Between 1809 and 1817 he is documented in three transactions involving enslaved people. The deed by which he received his wife's dowry also included some enslaved people, entrusted to his administration.
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Barberi Lucas
1788–1821Lucas Barberi y Blanco, resident in Lima, was born in Arenzano, «five leagues from Genoa». In his will he declares that he owns three enslaved people (AGN, Protocolos notariales, no. 638, escribano Jose Maria de la Rosa, 1821). Between 1790 and 1819 he is documented in ten transactions involving enslaved people.
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Benzano y Dagnino Antonio
1800–1820Born in Sestri, in the Archdiocese of Genoa (AAL, Expedientes matrimoniales, 1811). In his will he declares that he owns four enslaved people.
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Bunda Antonio
1770–1777Born in the place called Bendon, in the jurisdiction of Albenga, province of Genoa, son of Juan Bautista Bunda and Catalina Pana (AGN, Protocolo 559, 1776-1777). In his will he declared that he owned an enslaved man, José María, whom he left to the Convento Grande de San Francisco to serve the friars; if he were not considered suitable, the convent could sell him.
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Cadorna Esteban
1790–1818Between 1790 and 1818 he is documented in Lima in at least twenty-one transactions involving enslaved people, several times as buyer and as seller. In 1804 he also formed a company with two other partners, contributing 12,000 pesos to a capital of 36,000, intended for the purchase of 150 enslaved people in Buenos Aires and their resale in Lima.
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Carmelino Angel
1800–1830In the Lima census of 1813 three enslaved people are recorded in his household. In his will of 1816, however, he declared that he owned five: José, Juan, Dolores, Marco and Félix.
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Carmelino Angelo
from 1813An Italian immigrant attested in Lima from at least 1813, the year of his marriage, he became the owner of an inn and owned five enslaved people.
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De la Terola y Jordan Agustín
1753–1763Also known as Agustín de la Terola or Agustín Jordan, he was born in Finale, in the Republic of Genoa, the legitimate son of Joseph de la Terola y Jordan and Ana Maria Gordona y Graterola. Between 1755 and 1763 he is documented in three transactions involving enslaved people.
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Ferrari Cayetan
1822Although he was already deceased, he appears in the proceedings of the Juzgado de Secuestros in Lima. His assets, which were valued at 8,000 pesos, included money, jewellery, enslaved people, and the furnishings of his fonda on Calle de Mercaderes.
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Fragoso Jacom (Giacomo)
c. 1591–1621A merchant originally from Recco, he traded between Lima, Arequipa and Puno in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Alongside other goods he sold enslaved people procured for him by the Genoese Camilo Bonafante, resident first in Callao and then in Arica.
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Gaso Nicolas
1800–1825Bartolo Gaso, born in the Kingdom of Genoa, the legitimate son of Nicolas Gaso and Maria Gaso (AGN, Protocolo 635, 1819). In his will he declared that he owned several enslaved people; for María Teresa, purchased for 490 pesos, he directed that she be sold for no more than 400 pesos and not outside the city, in reward for her good services. Between 1800 and 1818 he is also documented in eight transactions involving enslaved people.
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Grillo Bartolome
1800–1820Born in San Maurizio di Genova, the legitimate son of Francisco Grillo and Francisca Calandra (AGN, Protocolo 84, 1808). Between 1805 and 1807 he is documented in three transactions involving enslaved people.
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Guerci Bartolome
1783–1815Between 1783 and 1809 he is documented in Lima in at least eighteen transactions involving enslaved people, as buyer, seller and intermediary. The sources attest purchases and subsequent resales, and the sale on behalf of third parties of an enslaved bozal person, that is, born in Africa, who had been sent to him on consignment from Guayaquil. Other transactions concern enslaved people from Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
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Maza Juan Maria
1775In Lima he owned a chocolate shop and three enslaved people.
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Pavarin Luis
1800–1821Born in Turin, in the Kingdom of Sardinia. In his will he declares that he owns six enslaved people (AGN, Perú, Protocolo 30, escribano Ignacio Ayllon Salazar, 1818). Between 1809 and 1818 he is documented in fifteen transactions involving enslaved people.
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Poleo Bartolomé
1790–1815Vecino of Lima, born in Savona, in the Republic of Genoa («vecino de Lima, natural de Savona, en la República de Génova»). Between 1790 and 1815 he is documented in 33 transactions involving enslaved people.
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Sacio Antonio
1798–1825He was a Genoese merchant in Lima who married Gertrudis Poleo, the daughter of another Genoese man named Bartolomé Poleo. She brought a dowry of around 13,000 pesos to the marriage, but in 1822 he claimed that her contribution was actually worth around 24,000 pesos — 11,000 pesos more than the dowry. His properties included four cajones (shops) on the Ribera, bodegas on Calle Aldabas, Mantas and Portal de Botoneros, as well as properties rented on Calle Pescadería and Calle Santo Toribio. In his early years of business, he traded brandy from the Ica Valley. He also owned two pulperías (grocery shops). In 1825 he married, as his third wife, Toribia Poleo, who brought him a dowry of about 16,000 pesos, including three enslaved people worth 780 pesos.
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Terri Antonio
1755–1767Born in the Marquisate of Finale, in the Republic of Genoa, the legitimate son of Antonio Terri and Angela Adriano. In Cádiz he married Antonia Álvarez Campana Cardona, whose mother was a native of Finale (AGN, Protocolo 20, 1780). Between 1755 and 1767 he is documented in three transactions involving enslaved people.