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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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  • d’Este Luigi

    1580
    Slave owner Religion
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    Ferrara

    A cardinal of the House of Este, he owned eighty enslaved people at his villa in Tivoli. After their revolt, in 1580, he purchased another fifty.