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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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Ratto Manuel
1685–1689A Genoese merchant, partner of Balthasar Coymans in Cádiz in the firm «Coymans en Ratto», recorded in the archive index as «Conio e Ratto». Between 1685 and 1689 he directly managed the financial operations, remittances and shipping freights on behalf of the asiento company, holder of the monopoly of the slave trade in the Spanish colonies.
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Recagno Domenico
1601–1700 (century)A Genoese merchant settled in Cádiz, he took part with Francesco Ferrari of Amsterdam, Bartolomeo Grillo and Ambrogio Lomellini in a company for the transport of enslaved people to American ports. He is a different person from Bernardo Recagno, active in the same Cádiz merchant colony.
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Rolato Giovanni
1661–1663A Genoese merchant and partner of the asiento in Cádiz between 1661 and 1662, he was investigated for smuggling in the Indies. He belonged to the same trading network as Giovanni Battista Porrata and the other Cádiz partners who took part in the slave-trading expeditions in the Caribbean, including the Grasso brothers, Pietro Del Forno, Giovanni Battista Priaruggia and Alberto Bieluto.
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Sacio Antonio
1798–1825He was a Genoese merchant in Lima who married Gertrudis Poleo, the daughter of another Genoese man named Bartolomé Poleo. She brought a dowry of around 13,000 pesos to the marriage, but in 1822 he claimed that her contribution was actually worth around 24,000 pesos — 11,000 pesos more than the dowry. His properties included four cajones (shops) on the Ribera, bodegas on Calle Aldabas, Mantas and Portal de Botoneros, as well as properties rented on Calle Pescadería and Calle Santo Toribio. In his early years of business, he traded brandy from the Ica Valley. He also owned two pulperías (grocery shops). In 1825 he married, as his third wife, Toribia Poleo, who brought him a dowry of about 16,000 pesos, including three enslaved people worth 780 pesos.
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Serra Baltasar
c. 1691–1700A member of the Ligurian patrician family of the Serra, active in the Spanish administration. He was appointed juez conservador of the monopoly of the asiento de negros, with the task of protecting the legal privileges and commercial interests connected with the introduction and sale of enslaved Black people in the American colonies.
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He was among those who in 1634 obtained licences to sail from the ports of Seville, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Lisbon and the Canaries, load enslaved people at Cape Verde, in Guinea, at São Tomé, in Angola and at Mina, and transport them to New Spain and Tierra Firme (Colombia and Venezuela).
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Terri Antonio
1755–1767Born 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.