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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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  • Centurione (Centurion) Gaspar

    1514–1526
    Slave trader, Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Seville

    Together with Francisco Grimaldi (or Grimaldo), he bought a licence to send a small group of enslaved people to Hispaniola. He also undertook to ship the enslaved people for the Genoese company (Forne, Vivaldo and Vazquez) that had purchased Gouvenot's licence.

  • Lago Marin Juan Maria

    1670
    Slave trader, Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Seville, Porto Rico

    In 1670 Grillo and Lomellini appointed him agent in Puerto Rico, together with two other agents, one Andalusian and one Creole. He had previously resided in Seville.

  • Rondinelli Piero

    1485–1520
    Slave trader, Mediator Trade, Finance and Banking
    Origin
    Genova
    Place of activity
    Seville

    A Florentine merchant, he was called by Donato Nicolini to direct in Seville the trading company that had belonged to Giannotto Berardi and that, on the latter's death, had passed to Amerigo Vespucci. He traded in enslaved people on behalf of Marchionni and Cesare Barzi. Besides the slave trade, he dealt in Canary sugar, English woollen cloth, Italian silk fabrics and many other products.