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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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Bustanzo Giuseppe
1663–1667Between 1663 and 1667 he organised the networks of the Grillo and Lomellini asiento in the Caribbean from his base in Cartagena de Indias. In the 1650s he had founded in Cádiz, with his brother Giovanni, a trading house that had already dealt with Grillo and Lomellini before the asiento was granted.
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Gaggero Pedro
1729–1741A Genoese active in the Spanish territories of America, he privately purchased enslaved people («compra particular de Negros») from Nicolás Alfonso Serrano in the years when the asiento de negros was managed by the English company.