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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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  • Borbone-Parma María Luisa

    1784
    Investor Government and Diplomacy
    Origin
    Parma
    Place of activity
    Madrid

    Princess of Asturias and wife of the future Charles IV of Spain, through the Farnese inheritance she was the beneficial owner of 3 and one-third shares of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy.

  • d’Este Isabella

    1491
    Slave owner Government and Diplomacy
    Origin
    Ferrara

    Marchioness of Mantua, in 1491 she instructed her agent in Venice, Giorgio Brognolo, to procure for her an African girl, «una moreta», aged between one and a half and four years.

  • Farnese Elisabetta

    1784
    Investor Government and Diplomacy
    Origin
    Parma

    Queen Mother of Spain, originally from Parma. According to the coupons of 1784, the securities of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy, which passed to the Bourbon-Parma came from her estate: 3 and one-third shares each to the Infante Fernando, Duke of Parma, and to María Luisa, Princess of Asturias. The collections were handled in Madrid by the Italian trustees Juan Bautista Rossi and Francisco Antonio Paglia.