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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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  • Balocco Cesare

    1666–1668
    Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Milano
    Place of activity
    London

    Agent of the Grillo and Lomellini asiento. In 1666 he was sent to London to conclude an agreement with the Company of Royal Adventurers for the shipment of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean.

  • Migliorucci Pietro Giuseppe

    1720–1728
    Investor Finance and Banking
    Origin
    Firenze
    Place of activity
    London

    Also known as Peter Joseph Migliorucci, a Tuscan merchant and banker active in London in the first decades of the eighteenth century. After the collapse of the banker Sir Justus Beck he was appointed assignee in bankruptcy and trustee of his estate, together with Gerrard Van Neck and Claude Jamineau. Among the assets seized was a portfolio registered in Beck's name but belonging to the merchant Jacob George Le Grand: 4,050 pounds sterling of government annuities converted into shares of the South Sea Company, holder of the asiento. In 1728 he was named as a defendant in a suit before the Court of Chancery, which accused him of having «combined and confederated» with the company's management to withhold shares and dividends.