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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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  • Balocco Cesare

    1666–1668
    Mediator Trade
    Origin
    Milano
    Place of activity
    London

    Agent of the Grillo and Lomellini asiento. In 1666 he was sent to London to conclude an agreement with the Company of Royal Adventurers for the shipment of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean.

  • Cadorna Esteban

    1790–1818
    Slave trader, Slave owner, Investor Trade
    Origin
    Milano
    Place of activity
    Lima

    Between 1790 and 1818 he is documented in Lima in at least twenty-one transactions involving enslaved people, several times as buyer and as seller. In 1804 he also formed a company with two other partners, contributing 12,000 pesos to a capital of 36,000, intended for the purchase of 150 enslaved people in Buenos Aires and their resale in Lima.

  • Di San Giuliano Francesco

    1569–1579
    Slave trader Trade
    Origin
    Milano
    Place of activity
    Seville

    Between 1569 and 1579 he sent 250 enslaved people to America.