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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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  • Cadena Gaspar

    c. 1595–1610
    Slave trader Trade
    Origin
    Venezia

    He purchased licences to export enslaved people from Cape Verde. From Lisbon he moved to Brazil, where he prospered by transporting enslaved Africans destined for the sugar plantations.

  • dalla Man Isach

    1763–1768
    Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Venezia
    Place of activity
    Venezia

    From about 1763 he started a direct trade in glass beads between Venice and Liverpool, entering into relations with the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa and, in 1766-1767, with the slave-trading house William Davenport & Co., of which he was a supplier with shipments from Venice and from the Livorno branch. In 1768 the Venetian authorities excluded him from this trade, accusing him of having delivered beads of poor quality.