life insurance contracts for pregnant enslaved women
The slaveholder and silk worker named Onorato de Papia purchases insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriters Ambrogio and Gregorio de Curlis for an enslaved Russian woman named Lucia, who is approximately 31 years of age and pregnant for about eight months, for 150 Genoese lire. The term is three months from the date of the contract. Ambrogio and Gregorio are absent at the enactment of the contract and are represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.