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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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Burlamacchi Benjamin
1665–1691A merchant and investor from Lucca, he settled in Amsterdam in 1665. Through his own trading house and his relations with the Genoese correspondents in Cádiz (Maffei, Ratto and Marien) and with the Tensini in Amsterdam, he financed operations connected with the slave trade of the asiento de negros and also corresponded with agents in Curaçao, such as Balthasar Beck. In 1691 he left for Bengal in the service of the VOC, the Dutch East India Company, and died there in 1697.
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Monsagrati Juan Isidoro
1770–1784A native of Lucca, in 1770 he was appointed administrator and later factor in Cádiz of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy. He was paid 1% on the sales of goods landed from Havana and 1% on purchases destined for the colonies. The accounts he signed include the item «en negros»: 12,161 pesos and 6 reales in the Estado de los Fondos of 1777 and a further 10,295 pesos among the actual holdings in Havana in the accounts of 1782. He handled the fitting out and insurance of the fleet, including the Santa María de Gracia, a paquebote purchased for the «conducción de negros».