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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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  • Centurione (Centurion) Gaspar

    1514–1526
    Slave trader, Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Seville

    Together with Francisco Grimaldi (or Grimaldo), he bought a licence to send a small group of enslaved people to Hispaniola. He also undertook to ship the enslaved people for the Genoese company (Forne, Vivaldo and Vazquez) that had purchased Gouvenot's licence.

  • Fornari (Forne) Domingo

    1518–1526
    Slave trader, Mediator, Slave owner Trade, Finance and Banking
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Madrid

    With his brother Tomas, Augustin de Vivaldo and Fernan Vazquez he bought the licence that the King of Spain had granted to Gouvenot to bring 4,000 enslaved people to the Americas in eight years. It is not known how many people they sold, but they resold the licences at very high prices, making a profit of 300,000 ducats. The same company, with Genoese and Spanish capital, owned the ingenio of Sanctis Spiritu, just outside Santo Domingo.

  • Fornari (Forne) Tomas

    1518–1526
    Slave trader, Mediator, Slave owner Trade, Finance and Banking
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Madrid

    With his brother Domingo, Augustin de Vivaldo and Fernan Vazquez he bought the licence that the King of Spain had granted to Gouvenot to bring 4,000 enslaved people to the Americas in eight years. It is not known how many people they sold, but they resold the licences at very high prices, making a profit of 300,000 ducats. The same company, with Genoese and Spanish capital, owned the ingenio of Sanctis Spiritu, just outside Santo Domingo.