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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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Amatori Benozzo
1503–1517He acted as a procurator for various Florentine merchants in Lisbon, including Marchionni, Morelli and Sernigi, as well as for Portuguese merchants. He also maintained ties with other Florentines based on the Iberian Peninsula: in 1506, for instance, he sent an enslaved boy of thirteen from Madeira to Andrea Canigiani, who was living in Valencia.
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Lomellini Urbano
1472–1518He was the grandson of Bartolomeo Lomellini, who settled in Lisbon in 1424, and the son of Cosmo, who was born in the Portuguese capital and became a prominent merchant. Instead, Urbano settled in Madeira with his brother Giovanni Battista and became a sugarcane producer there. He owned two plantations in the Porto da Cruz area, where he employed enslaved people, including Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and Guanches from the Canary Islands. Meanwhile, his brother Giovanni Battista traded Madeiran sugar in Lisbon, Genoa, Milan, Naples and other Italian cities, as well as Bruges.
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Salvago Luca
1490–1500Owner of a sugar plantation in Madeira.