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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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Famiglia Baldovino
c. 1801–1810A Genoese family resident in Buenos Aires, included in the early nineteenth century in the register of households that owned enslaved people.
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Famiglia Ferrari
1804A Hispanicised Genoese family long settled in Buenos Aires, included in the city's 1804 register of slave owners. It lived in the most central districts, a sign of its integration.
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Famiglia Marzano
c. 1801–1810A Genoese family resident in Buenos Aires, recorded in the early nineteenth century among the households that owned enslaved people.
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Famiglia Parodi
c. 1801–1810A Genoese family resident in Buenos Aires, recorded in the early nineteenth century among the households that owned enslaved people.
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A Cádiz firm described as a cartel of Ligurian investors, holder of 52 shares of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy. The company note of 1 July 1790 lists the brothers Joseph and Tomás Ardizone as co-partners.