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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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  • Antelmi Arrigo

    1645–1675
    Slave trader, Ship captain Transports and maritime activities
    Origin
    Livorno

    Captain of the ship Sant'Iacopo of Livorno. His account books and logbooks, covering the years from 1645 to 1657, record transactions relating to the crew and sales of enslaved people; among his papers there is also a register entitled «Ruolo delli schiavi che si trova in essere il S.or Capitano Arrigo Antelio a 20 di luglio 1657».

  • Cipriani Cipriano

    1770–1834
    Slave owner Agriculture and land property
    Origin
    Livorno
    Place of activity
    Trinidad

    He belonged to a family of Tuscan origin with commercial interests between Livorno and Corsica, in particular at Centuri. Brother of Matteo Cipriani and uncle of Leonetto Cipriani, he owned the Moka plantation in Trinidad, in the British West Indies, and was also linked to the Ortinola property, in the Maracas region. His name appears, together with that of his wife Amelia Caracciolo Cipriani, among the slave owners who received the compensation granted by Great Britain after the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, which came into force in 1834. For the Moka plantation (Trinidad compensation no. 997) he received £6,832 10s 5d; he also received the compensation awards Trinidad no. 1017 (£270 12s 0d) and Trinidad no. 1413 (£1,799 14s 7d).

  • Siccoli Pietro

    1839
    Slave trader, Ship captain Transports and maritime activities
    Origin
    Livorno
    Place of activity
    La Habana

    Captain of the Bela Fiorentina (La Bella Fiorentina), a ship built in Genoa that sailed under the Portuguese or Brazilian flag. Having set out from Havana, she was captured by the British in 1839 near the coast of Sierra Leone.