Emanuele Usodimare was a Genoese merchant and slaveholder who was active throughout the first half of the fifteenth century. He also held numerous administrative positions in the government of Genoa.
A certain Tedisio Lercari testifies on behalf of Caterina de Bargalio that he had encountered an enslaved woman named Maria, from the Canary Islands, on the island of Gomera. Tedisio had gone to Gomera on the vessel of Napoleone Cicala about four years earlier and had briefly been taken captive by the lord of Gomera named Diego Errera. He encountered the enslaved Maria working as a household servant for Deigo and his daughter, also named Maria, and testified that the enslaved Maria had kindly provided him with water while he was imprisoned there. Tedisio also testified that he knew that the enslaved Maria was subsequently brought to Spain, where she was sold to Antonio de Bargalio, the deceased husband of Caterina.
A certain Gregorio de Bozzolo testifies on behalf of Caterina de Bargalio that he had encountered an enslaved woman named Maria, who was from the Canary Islands, while he was in Seville and working as the secretary on the vessel of Niccolò Negrone and patronized by Alaone Squarciafico. He testified that the enslaved Maria was working as a household servant in Seville in the house of the lord of Canary Islands and his wife, also named Maria. Gregorio stated that this Maria had sold the enslaved Maria to Antonio de Bargalio in Seville and that Gregorio had collected the comerchia tax from Antonio at the time of sale.
The merchant named Benedetto Dondedeo testifies on behalf of Caterina de Bargalio that he had first encountered the enslaved Maria, from the Canary Islands, on the island of Gomera. Benedetto had gone to Gomera on the vessel of Raffaele Lomellini, which was patronized by Napoleone Cicala, about four years earlier and had briefly been taken captive by the lord of Gomera. After obtaining his freedom Benedetto travelled to the islands of Feurteventura and La Palma where he encountered the enslaved Maria working as a household servant for a certain Maria, the wife of a Portuguese merchant and daughter of Diego Errera, the lord of the Canary Islands. Benedetto testified that this Maria wanted to sell the enslaved Maria to him, but he did not have the money to make the purchase. The enslaved Maria was then sent to Puerto de Santa María on the same vessel as that of Benedetto. He then testified that he was witness of the sale of the enslaved Maria by the merchant named Juan de Mallorca, acting as the procurator for the slaveholder Maria, to Antonio de Bargalio and that it was well known that the enslaved Maria worked afterwards as a servant for Antonio de Bargalio in Puerto de Santa María.
The slaveholder named Girolamo de Camulio, who is also the bishop of Chios, manumits an enslaved Bosnian woman named Maria, who is approximately 29 years of age and described as coming from Sclavonia. The contract notes that Girolamo had purchased the enslaved Maria from in Chios from a person from Ragusa.
The Empire of Trebizond was a monarchy and one of three successor rump states of the Byzantine Empire that governed parts of the north and south coasts of the Black Sea from the thirteenth through to the fifteenth century. The Empire of Trebizond fell to the Ottomans in 1461.
Enrico Giustiniani was a merchant and citizen of Genoa who was active in the eastern Mediterranean in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was the governor of Foça from 1427 to 1437.
