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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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da Noli Antonio
1460–1469 (decade)A Genoese navigator in the service of the Portuguese Crown, in the 1460s he was commissioned by Afonso V to colonise the Cape Verde Islands. The commission included authorisation to carry on the slave trade in the indigenous populations.