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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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Lomellini Raffaele
1478–1498He was the son of Giovanni Lomellini, a Genoese resident of Seville who traded Madeira sugar. In 1478, he was in La Gomera, where he participated in the slave trade from the Canary Islands.
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Riparola Franceso
1492–1515Known as Francisco de Riberol, he financed he Spanish conquest of La Palma and Tenerife, led by Alonso Fernández de Lugo, alongside other Genoese merchants, including Matteo Vigna and Francesco Palmario. He settled in La Palma, where he traded enslaved Guanche people and owned plantations on which they worked.
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Riparola Giacomo
1462–1507Besides trading in enslaved people, he held the monopoly of the trade in orchil (orchilla), a dye, and took part in the wine trade with the West Indies.