Networks of slaveholding and enslavement in the Genoese Mediterranean, 1348–1528

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• Tommaso Casanova, register 18, 1351–1352, fol. 303v

  The slaveholder named Carlotto Lomellini sells an enslaved Bulgarian child named Margarita, who is approximately 12 years of age, to a certain Giacomo de Camino, for 50 lire. The child is mentioned as being white.
• Tommaso Casanova, register 19, 1352–1353, fol. 138r

  The slaveholder named Antonio Dalmatio sells an enslaved Bulgarian man named Michele, who is approximately 26 years of age, to a certain Jean Scutil, from Narbonne, for 42 Genoese lire. The seller makes no guarantee regarding the health of the enslaved Michele.
• Tommaso Casanova, register 20, 1354–1358, fol. 133r

  The slaveholder named Percivale de Marini sells an enslaved Greek woman named Sofia, who is approximately 28 years of age, to a certain Matteo de Marini, for 25 Genoese lire. The seller makes no guarantees with regards to the health of the enslaved Sofia, who is described as "pro tali qualis est."
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 108

  The slaveholder from the commune of Voltri named Pietro Grillo sells an enslaved Circassian man named Giacobino, who is approximately 38 years of age, to a cooper named Gabriele de Corvaria, for the amount of 95 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 109

  The slaveholder named Andreolo Doria sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Maria, who is approximately 25 years old, to a merchant from Varazze named Andrea Delfino, for the amount of 170 Genoese lire. The enslaved Maria had been transferred to Andreolo several months earlier, on 15 April 1453, and this contract represents the ratification of the sale.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 60

  The slaveholders and brothers Giacomo, Giovanni, Antonio, Clemente, Giorgio, and Simone Cicero sell an enslaved baptized Muslim woman named Maddalena, who is approximately 17 years of age and described as black, to a merchant from Jerez named Francisco Diaz, for 120 Genoese lire to be paid in the income from shares (paghe) of the Casa di San Giorgio. Giacomo represents his brothers in the transaction. The contract was extracted.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series I, nr. 9

  The slaveholder from Varazze named Antonio Narexano sells an enslaved Russian woman named Nestasia, who is about 34 years of age, to a leather worker named Corrado Bozonio, for 160 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series II, nr. 178

  The slaveholder named Gaspare di Negro sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Caterina, who is approximately 23 years of age, to the merchant from Siena named Giacomo Bico, for 150 Genoese lire. The contract specifically mentions that the legality of the sale is enforceable in Savona, Lombardy, Milan, Albenga, Nice, Pisa, Florence, Siena, Venice, Rhodes, Chios, Pera , and Caffa. The contract was extracted.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series II, nr. 220

  The slaveholder named Gaspare di Negro sells an enslaved African woman named Benedetta, who is approximately 22 years of age, to a shoemaker named Marco Garrone, for 110 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 1, series II, nr. 66

  The slaveholder named Giovanni Basadonna sells an enslaved Russian child named Margarita, who is approximately 12 years of age, to a certain Paolo Cortesio, for 120 Genoese lire. The payment is made in two shares (loca) of the Compere of San Giorgio for the year 1454 and held under the name of Franca de Varcio, valued at 113 Genoese lire, and the remaining payment is paid in money of account.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 10, nr. 191

  The slaveholder named Goffredo Lercari sells an enslaved Abkhazan woman named Caterina, who is approximately 28 years of age, to a merchant from Mallorca named Lluís Vidal, for 180 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 10, nr. 287

  The slaveholder and blacksmith named Girolamo Porrata sells an enslaved Abkhazan woman named Lucia, who is approximately 21 years of age, to a Catalonian merchant named Mateu Viacamps, for 200 Genoese lire. The contract was extracted.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 10, nr. 509

  The slaveholder named Andrea de Spigno sells the enslaved Russian woman named Maria, who is approximately 24 years of age, to a certain Bianchetta Usodimare, for 200 Genoese lire. Bianchetta is absent during the transaction and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino. The payment was made by Raffaele de Marini. The contract was extracted.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 10, nr. 86

  The slaveholder named Brancaleone Grillo sells an enslaved Russian man named Venturino, who is approximately 20 years of age, to a certain Lanzarotto Grillo, for 90 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 11, nr. 15

  The slaveholder named Raffaele Doria sells an enslaved Abkhazan woman named Maria, who is approximately 25 years of age, to a merchant from Valencia named Gabriel Marco, for 190 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 11, nr. 215

  The slaveholder named Pietro de Petra sells an enslaved woman named Caterina, who is approximately 20 years of age and from the Canary Islands, to a merchant from Valenica named Gabriele Marco, for 80 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 11, nr. 225

  The slaveholder and apothecary named Bernardo Pernice sells an enslaved Russian woman named Sofia, who is approximately 30 years of age, to a merchant from Barcelona named Jaime de Sos, for 160 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 11, nr. 237

  The slaveholder named Girolamo, whose last name is not specified, sells an enslaved Abkhazan woman named Lucia, who is approximately 25 years of age, to a certain Barnaba Marchione, for 170 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 11, nr. 265

  The slaveholder named Angelo Ihosa sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Lucia, who is approximately 22 years of age, to the merchant named Giacomo Giustiniani, for 215 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 11, nr. 270

  The heirs of the deceased Antonio de Facio—his brother Leonardo de Facio and his two daughters Maria and Benedetta de Facio—sell an enslaved Circassian woman named Margarita, who is approximately 25 years of age, to a certain Simone Cicala, for 150 Genoese lire. Maria is represented by the blacksmith named Niccolò de Accurso who serves as her procurator through a contract enacted by the notary Cristoforo Garrone. Benedetta is represented by the paper maker named Cosmo Ferro, who is her spouse and serves as her procurator through a contract enacted by the notary Pietro de Facio.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 12, nr. 384

  The slaveholder named Alberto de Illuminatis sells an enslaved Russian woman named Lucia, who is approximately 27 years of age, to a certain Benedetto Guastavino, an inhabitant of the commune of Finale Ligure, for 160 Genoese lire. The contract states that the enslaved Lucia must not reside within the city of Genoa.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 12, nr. 691

  The slaveholder named Paolo Battista Salvago sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Anastasia, who is approximately 20 years of age, to a merchant from Valencia named Gabriel Marco, for 160 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 13, series I, nr. 225

  The slaveholder and physician named Cassano Ittaliano sells an enslaved woman named Maria, who is approximately 28 years old, to the Genoese citizen named Francesco Lomellini, for 200 Genoese florins.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 13, series II, nr. 450

  The slaveholder and merchant from Valencia named Juan Marco sells an enslaved Circassian woman named Anna, who is approximately 30 years old, to the noblewoman and widow named Franchetta Doria, for 200 Genoese lire.
• Tommaso Duracino, filza 14, series II, nr. 371 (formerly nr. 374)

  The slaveholder named Giorgio Garbarino sells an Circassian child named Francesco, who is approximately 14 years of age, to the merchant from Mallorca named Juan Focoberto, for 90 Genoese lire.