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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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  • Caracciolo Cipriani Amelia

    until 1834
    Slave owner Agriculture and land property
    Place of activity
    Trinidad

    She 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.

  • d’Este Isabella

    1491
    Slave owner Government and Diplomacy
    Origin
    Ferrara

    Marchioness 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.