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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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  • Bacarreza Antonio

    1763–1790
    Mediator, Slave owner Trade
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Lima

    Born in Genoa, son of Josef Bacarreza and Angela Conforte (AAL, Licencias matrimoniales, 1773). Between 1771 and 1787 he is documented in six transactions involving enslaved people.

  • Barberi Lucas

    1788–1821
    Slave owner, Slave trader, Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Arenzano
    Place of activity
    Lima

    Lucas Barberi y Blanco, resident in Lima, was born in Arenzano, «five leagues from Genoa». In his will he declares that he owns three enslaved people (AGN, Protocolos notariales, no. 638, escribano Jose Maria de la Rosa, 1821). Between 1790 and 1819 he is documented in ten transactions involving enslaved people.

  • Guerci Bartolome

    1783–1815
    Slave trader, Slave owner, Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Lima

    Between 1783 and 1809 he is documented in Lima in at least eighteen transactions involving enslaved people, as buyer, seller and intermediary. The sources attest purchases and subsequent resales, and the sale on behalf of third parties of an enslaved bozal person, that is, born in Africa, who had been sent to him on consignment from Guayaquil. Other transactions concern enslaved people from Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

  • Pavarin Luis

    1800–1821
    Slave trader, Slave owner, Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Torino
    Place of activity
    Lima

    Born in Turin, in the Kingdom of Sardinia. In his will he declares that he owns six enslaved people (AGN, Perú, Protocolo 30, escribano Ignacio Ayllon Salazar, 1818). Between 1809 and 1818 he is documented in fifteen transactions involving enslaved people.

  • Poleo Bartolomé

    1790–1815
    Slave owner, Mediator, Slave trader Trade
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Lima

    Vecino of Lima, born in Savona, in the Republic of Genoa («vecino de Lima, natural de Savona, en la República de Génova»). Between 1790 and 1815 he is documented in 33 transactions involving enslaved people.

  • Terri Antonio

    1755–1767
    Mediator, Slave owner Trade
    Place of activity
    Lima, Cadiz, Santiago de Chile

    Born in the Marquisate of Finale, in the Republic of Genoa, the legitimate son of Antonio Terri and Angela Adriano. In Cádiz he married Antonia Álvarez Campana Cardona, whose mother was a native of Finale (AGN, Protocolo 20, 1780). Between 1755 and 1767 he is documented in three transactions involving enslaved people.