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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 Ambrosio

    1769–1796
    Slave owner Religion, Military
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Lima

    Lieutenant of the Dragoon regiment of the Lima militia until 1790, when he requested royal licence to enter the Franciscan order (AGI, Lima, 689B, N. 10). Between 1770 and 1772 he is documented in three transactions involving enslaved people.

  • d’Este Luigi

    1580
    Slave owner Religion
    Origin
    Ferrara

    A cardinal of the House of Este, he owned eighty enslaved people at his villa in Tivoli. After their revolt, in 1580, he purchased another fifty.

  • Tedeschi Giuseppe

    c. 1670–1700
    Mediator Religion
    Origin
    Firenze
    Place of activity
    Goa

    A missionary, he sent enslaved people from Goa to Cosimo III.