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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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Banfi y Montoto María Catalina
1781–1784Only daughter and universal heir of José Banfi y Parrilla, a banker of Genoese origin, knight of the Order of Calatrava and minister of the Supreme Council of the Indies. By an executory decree of the Council of Castile of 2 March 1781 she obtained full and independent administration of her dowry and of her father's estate. On 24 July 1784 she appeared in person at the offices of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy, and collected the dividends on her 14 shares, what remained of the 16 in her father's inventory.
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Princess of Asturias and wife of the future Charles IV of Spain, through the Farnese inheritance she was the beneficial owner of 3 and one-third shares of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy.
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Caracciolo Cipriani Amelia
until 1834She appears, together with her husband Cipriano Cipriani, among the beneficiaries of the compensation granted by Great Britain to slave owners after the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, in 1834. The Cipriani family owned the Moka plantation in Trinidad, in the British West Indies, and was also linked to the Ortinola property, in the Maracas region. In the Legacies of British Slavery Database her name appears in connection with compensation Trinidad no. 1017, for which £270 12s 0d was awarded.
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d’Este Isabella
1491Marchioness of Mantua, in 1491 she instructed her agent in Venice, Giorgio Brognolo, to procure for her an African girl, «una moreta», aged between one and a half and four years.
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Farnese Elisabetta
1784Queen Mother of Spain, originally from Parma. According to the coupons of 1784, the securities of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy, which passed to the Bourbon-Parma came from her estate: 3 and one-third shares each to the Infante Fernando, Duke of Parma, and to María Luisa, Princess of Asturias. The collections were handled in Madrid by the Italian trustees Juan Bautista Rossi and Francisco Antonio Paglia.
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Grillo Giovanna
1701Sister of Domenico Grillo, holder with Ambrogio Lomellini of the asiento de negros from 1663 to 1674. In the 1640s she married Carlo Imperiale, her brother's trusted agent in Genoa for the business of the asiento. Her role went beyond mediation between Grillo and Imperiale: together with her brother Marco Antonio she personally handled the sale of American products in Genoa, and Domenico appointed her his representative in the city in the last years of his life.
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Monsagrati María Justa
1782–1789Eldest daughter of Juan Isidoro Monsagrati and widow of Juan Francisco Xavier Guidoti, she was a founding partner of the company Monsagrati Hijos, Montis y Compañía, established on 25 September 1782. On her father's death she continued to run the Cádiz factory of the Real Compañía de La Habana, deeply involved in the Cuban slave economy.
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Monsagrati María Petronila
1787–1803Second daughter of Juan Isidoro Monsagrati, unmarried and over twenty-five years of age, she entered the company Monsagrati Hijos, Montis y Compañía on the renewal of the contract, in 1787, declaring that she was succeeding her late father. She contributed to the company her own share of the inheritance, while the partners Montis and Roche contributed their personal labour. She remained at the head of the Cádiz factory until the business was closed, on 31 May 1803.