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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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Owner, together with Claudio Picaluga and Giovanni Zangroni, of the ship Amable Claudina and its cargo. Having sailed from Bordeaux bound for La Guaira, the ship was intercepted by the Royal Navy and the case was judged by the Mixed Commission of Sierra Leone.
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Fortunato Antonio
1835A Neapolitan ship's captain naturalised Spanish in Santiago de Cuba, he was the owner of the schooner La Caridad and its cargo. On 18 September 1835 the ship, on a voyage from Norfolk, in the United States, to Bonny, with New Orleans as its final destination, was intercepted by HMS Triculo, under the command of Richard Warren, off Saint Thomas on the equator, after a call at the island of Príncipe. There were 112 enslaved people on board, 107 of whom were emancipated. The case was judged by the Mixed Commission of Sierra Leone.
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Picaluga Claudio
1824–1826Born in Genoa and naturalised Dutch in Curaçao, ship's captain and shipowner. He was the owner, together with Giovanni Zangroni and Francischo (Francesco) Chichiola, of the ship Amable Claudina and its cargo. Having sailed from Bordeaux bound for La Guaira, the ship was intercepted by the Royal Navy and the case was judged by the Mixed Commission of Sierra Leone.
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Siccoli Pietro
1839Captain of the Bela Fiorentina (La Bella Fiorentina), a ship built in Genoa that sailed under the Portuguese or Brazilian flag. Having set out from Havana, she was captured by the British in 1839 near the coast of Sierra Leone.
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Vigne Francis
1819–1820A Genoese ship's captain, his name appears in the records of the Mixed Commission at Freetown, Sierra Leone, in connection with the interception of the ship Marie by the Royal Navy.
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Zangroni Giovanni
1826Owner, together with Claudio Picaluga and Francischo (Francesco) Chichiola, of the ship Amable Claudina and its cargo. Having sailed from Bordeaux bound for La Guaira, the ship was intercepted by the Royal Navy and the case was judged by the Mixed Commission of Sierra Leone.