Tommaso Duracino, filza 5, nr. 235 (formerly nr. 470)
life insurance contracts for pregnant enslaved women
The slaveholder and apothecary named Melchiorre de Varixio obtains insurance against the risk of death from childbirth from the underwriter Quirico Cattaneo for an enslaved Circassian woman named Maddalena, who is approximately 28 years of age and eight months pregnant, for coverage of 150 Genoese lire. The contract has a term of three months. Melchiorre is absent at the enactment and is represented by the enacting notary Tommaso Duracino.
The house of Ottobone di Negro and his brother